Environmental and social justice groups built an interactive calculator to measure the real cost of fossil fuel subsidies.

Eight major money in politics organizations come together this morning to discuss their findings on the role of money in the 2014 midterm election. Watch the livestream here.

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A Republican representing 22 communities in central Maine, Youngblood was elected three times using Maine’s Clean Election system.

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

A former White House administrator says proposed rules are often changed and improved based on citizens' comments.

Finally, some sense from Democrats in the House. Last week, 44 "flipped" and came out against the Volcker Rule delay.

While other conservatives say that the American state has become too powerful, Francis Fukuyama argues that it has grown too weak.

The Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee met last Wednesday to mark up the pipeline bill.

They would think Washington has invented a system so dumb, so extreme and so fundamentalist that changing it will surely prove a stunningly difficult task.