A roundup of this week's news from our Wild West campaign finance system.

Every year millions of public education dollars flow through a North Carolina businessman's chain of nonprofit charters to his for-profit companies.

Republicans have single-party control of 23 states. Arkansas and Iowa could be next.

An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.

The sagas of Dinesh D’Souza and Bob McDonnell laid bare some of the most basic dynamics of money in politics.

Reporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.

Now that numerous tech companies — such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook — have cut ties to the lobbying group, the pressure is on those that remain.

The Fed's role as fraud denier was fatal to America's ability to stop the mortgage fraud epidemic.

Here are some of the unsavory tactics drug companies are using to pocket more of your money.

Through their vast network of political nonprofits, the billionaire brothers are attacking infrastructure projects across the nation.