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.

Whenever there is an aura of money and power, an entourage grows up, and that is what's happened in D.C.

Michael Winship describes the Washington, D.C., he first encountered 45 years ago -- a city very different from the one we know today.

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.

America's capital is its richest city, and also one of its most unequal.

In this clip, This Town author Mark Leibovich explains how politicians are lured by lobbyists.

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