The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in McCutcheon v. FEC, a case considered critical to the future of campaign finance.

The NYT reports that a who's who of conservative activists headed by deep-pocketed funders have planned for months to trigger a budgetary showdown as a last-gasp effort to kill off Obamacare.

This week's crisis of government means two crises for the private sector.

ALEC is pushing the USDA to relax regulations on food safety that keep us from getting sick.

Bill Moyers shares his thoughts on the shutdown and the antics of our bought and paid for Congress.

David Cay Johnston explains what's really happened to our tax system over the years.

The real game, if you can play it, is shifting the tax burden onto someone else.

Across the country, for-profit companies are engaged in a hostile takeover of our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water -- even government itself.

Matt Taibbi talks about his new investigation into Wall St. hedge funds that are taking public pension money out of the hands of retirees.

Mistakes were made and three investigations are ongoing, but ultimately this is a story about how bureaucratic bungling was turned into scandal by right wing politicians.