It's a depressing, real-life chicken or the egg riddle: which came first, the tax plan to benefit wealthy donors or the promise of cash from wealthy donors for a tax plan that benefits them?

Newt Gingrich’s "Contract With America" is key to understanding the 114th Congress.

With Obama in the White House and the GOP in control of Congress, insurers are in the catbird seat.

Since Republican legislatures implemented new voting restrictions after 2010 and SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, it’s become easier to buy an election and harder to vote in one.

While big Dem donors like Tom Steyer lament Tuesday's return on their investment, they should take heart: big money — even losing big money — matters in Washington.

The real story was that such a large chunk of the cost was paid for by a small group of ultra-wealthy donors using outside groups to bury voters with an avalanche of spending.

GOP donors plowed cash into state legislative efforts in 2010 for the very purpose of redrawing congressional lines -- and it paid off.

Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested — until Kansans for Justice entered the fray earlier this month. Now the state's grappling with a new kind of dark money.

A Republican-controlled Senate could not only threaten the EPA, it could also reverse the environmental gains we've recently made.

You would think that making it easier for citizens to vote would be something to celebrate. The shocking remarks by these six government officials tell a different story.