In the new issue of The Washington Monthly, Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards look at how Republicans have given Congress a "self-lobotomy."

Speak up. You have a chance to tell both President Obama and the FCC what you think, so that the will of the people, not the power of money and predatory interests, is heard.

They hope to extend the "GE loophole" without a lot of public attention.

DC "just loves its circular metaphors -- spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors."

Bill talks with New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about This Town, his book on how money rules Washington, DC.

The Sunlight Foundation's Lisa Rosenberg offers some practical remedies to the culture of corruption and greed in Washington depicted in Mark Leibovich's recent book.

The New York Times journalist has written about the city’s bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety in a book that everyone who’s anyone in D.C. is talking about.

Bill talks with author and New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about his latest book, This Town, in which he writes that money rules D.C., and status is determined by who you know and what they can do for you.

Michael Winship says the only thing worse than a do-nothing Congress is one that yields "to the urgent, seductive whisper of the dollar."

Zaid Jilani takes a look at the Wall Street connections of two economists on President Obama's shortlist of replacements for Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve.