From Founding Fathers to Funding Fathers
  • Montana State Capitol, Helena, Montana. (Photo by Road Travel America | Flickr CC 2.0)
    Statehouses Hosting Biggest Political Money Fights
    While federal government dithers, policy battles rage in legislatures.
  • How SCOTUS Campaign Finance Rulings 'Distorted' US Democracy
    Campaign finance rulings contributed $1.3 billion, nearly half of the spending in the 2016 presidential election
  • Like Kryptonite to Campaign Finance Reform
    Trump could not have announced a more in-your-face betrayal of his promise to clean up Washington than his pick of Donald McGahn.
  • New Lawsuit Aims to Be 'Death of the Super PAC'
    "For too long, opponents of campaign finance reform have set the agenda in the courts. Today, we're taking back the initiative."
  • Last Night: Debating the Merits of the Third Debate
    Moyers' contributors deliver their verdicts and reactions on the third and final debate.
  • Why Overturning Citizens United Isn't Enough
    You don't have to think our democracy works perfectly to be appalled at Donald Trump's attack on it.
  • Three Key Issues Missing From the Debates
    The presidential candidates have not been asked questions on some of the critical issues facing us, and Chris Wallace has no plans to ask them.
  • The Law Professor Who Wants Mary Jo White Fired
    An investment-banker-turned-law-professor and corporate transparency advocate shares his thoughts on what has to happen during the next four years.
  • Talking Democracy with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
    Campaign finance reform advocate predicts victory will come like snow off a roof after a New England spring thaw: "in a big woosh."
  • Doing What the Feds Won't on Corporate Political Disclosure
    A tiny Washington nonprofit is trying to do what Congress and the SEC won't.