Our latest roundup of key money and politics reporting. This week: A Republican civil war, a rebranded Koch brothers' enterprise and how to do some dark money digging on your own.

Watch highlight clips from Bill's interview with author and legal scholar Ian Haney López on the origins of dog whistle politics and how it may be used in future elections.

ALEC is preparing to launch a sister network that will seek to replicate its influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities.

Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Bill continues his conversation with author and legal scholar Ian Haney López about how politicians use strategic racism to win votes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says that FDR's 1944 State of the Union speech is a model for what he would like to do for America's middle class. In this post, historian Harvey J. Kaye remembers what FDR had to say.

Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander explains what's really behind America's system of mass incarceration.

"Not even close," says social justice advocate Angela Glover Blackwell.

Princeton political scientist Martin Gilens explains how the media and longstanding racial stereotypes impact anti-poverty policy.

“Obamacare.” The right loves to hammer the Affordable Care Act with this nickname, and even the rest of us tend to use it. But we should not, for it works at least partly as a racial provocation.