A look at the week that was in the world of political dark money, from Mother Jones fellow Gavin Aronsen.

The election's 10 weeks away, but spending from outside groups has already eclipsed the $301.6 million spent in 2008.

Political communications and messaging analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson answered your questions about the conventions, fact checking and negative political advertising.

A look at several advertisements put out by nonprofits that reported no election spending during the same time period.

Why the Romney campaign keeps running its blatantly false welfare ads, and what to do about it.

Wondering who's behind that political ad on your TV screen? A new app from Sunlight Foundation puts that information in the palm of your hand.

Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, new spending estimates show.

With millions of Americans tuning into the London games, the candidates have latched on, hoping some of that Olympic gold will rub off.

The FCC’s new rules requiring online disclosure of who’s paying for political TV ads -- and how much they’re shelling out -- go into effect today.

Score another one for the FCC in their bid to require local TV stations to make political ad funding disclosures available online.