Historian Peter Dreier talks about outraged citizens fighting corruption and financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson on why JPMorgan may be getting off easily.

Financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson says that if the government were really being tough on Wall Street they would bring criminal charges against individuals at US banks.

Amid so much dysfunction, some in Congress are fighting for reform. Here are five bipartisan bills that could help fix our broken democracy.

In a special report, Alternet uncovers the hidden corporate cash behind America’s out-of-control national surveillance state and finds that Democratic leaders are full-fledged players, right along with Republicans.

The team won an ONA award over the weekend for its coverage of voter suppression tactics in Fight the Vote.

Politicians have developed a dizzying array of legislative tactics to bring in money, such as a maneuver known inside the Beltway as the “tollbooth.”

For two decades we've been downsizing government oversight along with the federal workforce.

In a governor’s race between a glad-handing Democrat and a self-righteous Republican, money wins.

A one-two punch rewriting of campaign finance law that drove legislators to heed their own parties' extreme elements.

This was the latest in a string of battles in which the American economy was ultimately the loser. Now Democrats have the upper hand -- if they don't mess it up.