On an April Sunday, more than 200 organizations united in Washington to fight for voting rights and campaign finance reform.

Many commentators said that terminating the controversial program would lead to a surge in crime, but the data tell a different story.

NAACP President Cornell William Brooks discusses the connection between voting rights and campaign finance reform.

Stephen Colbert's campaign finance lawyer thinks Trump, Clinton and Sanders should join forces on getting money out of politics. He's not kidding.

Ordinary people in California and across the country have invested their time and talent toward the goal of lifting working families out of poverty -- and the movement is gaining momentum.

More than 100 people have signed up to march from Philadelphia to Washington, DC, to protest money in politics. Here's why some of them are doing it.

A unique new partnership between local leaders and teachers strengthened a community and its school system, even after it was devastated by one of the worst tornadoes in US history.

In their new book, Nation on the Take, Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman portray a government and politics polluted by big corporate dollars. But the authors also offer solutions.

The prolific writer and activist discusses how she keeps faith while change moves slowly along.

“The interview seemed to go well,” one grad recalls, up until the moment when the interviewer looked at her resume. “She said, ‘Your degree isn’t any good.’”