Year-to-date spending totals for this year's election have exceeded spending for the past six elections combined.

Despite record-breaking temperatures, vanishing glaciers, rising seas, droughts and wildfires, climate change wasn’t discussed in any of the debates, and rarely has been mentioned on the campaign trail.

Politify.com tells you which candidate's financial policies help voters like you.

Tom Englehardt looks at the political landscape and asks: How big can one election get?

Ryan and Romney repeatedly recite the number of people living in poverty or needing food stamps, using the statistics as a bludgeon against Obama’s record. But Bigfoot and Nessie are about as factual as the myths these guys spin.

In the 1988 book Presidential Debates, Jamieson and Birdsell define the "classical" style of debate, and explain why it is an important tool for informing voters.

Do the presidential candidates have a plan to address the Eurozone crisis?

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan join Bill to assess the true value of the 2012 political debates, and weigh in on campaign communication tactics in the home stretch.

Web Exclusive: Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan assess how presidential debates and campaign ads serve the public interest.

Suzie shares what she's learned from adults about elections in America in this week's Mark Fiore animated cartoon.