A line of Supreme Court rulings stretching back 200 years has blurred the distinction between flesh-and-blood citizens and the businesses they own.

The state's recent election-law overhaul stripped away more than a decade’s worth of reforms that had dramatically increased ballot access for African-Americans.

It's the Democratic Party's own fault that voters struggle to distinguish it from the Republican Party.

Here's how corporations became people you can't sue.

This July 4, cherish the words of the Declaration but also summon Thomas Paine's spirit to remind yourself that we can, if we really care, pick up the broken thread of democratic zeal. An essay by Bill Moyers and Bernie Weisberger.

Securing state power from the domestic population and securing concentrated private power are driving forces in policy formation.

Before embracing divisive politics, the Republicans had been closely aligned with the cause of civil rights and had been supporters of equal justice.

A rural town in upstate New York just won a major victory against oil and gas companies hoping to frack on its residents' land.

We need to articulate America’s democratic purpose and remind ourselves and our fellow citizens what it means to be an American, writes Harvey Kaye.

Insider information passed between Washington and Wall Street helps the already-powerful at our expense.