How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?

Dave Brat spent much of his campaign slamming both parties for being in the pocket of “Wall Street crooks” and DC insiders.

First it was the banks, now it's a massive intelligence agency. The NSA is arguing that it's too large and complex to comply with a recent court order.

We rounded up some of the best analysis of this political earthquake.

Nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, American Indians still don’t have equal access to the ballot box.

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

The latest agriculture bill before the House continues the practice of building policies that perpetuate racial inequities without actually naming race, write two anti-hunger activists.

Immediately after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, candidates and elected officials started echoing its themes on our growing inequality.

A number of states have moved to expand access to the ballot in 2014. Many glitches have also developed as states implement new restrictions for the first time this year.

The president sought to selectively remember and rewrite the legacy of Roosevelt and the greatest generation right up to his last days in office.