Elections

A conservative nonprofit that recently sued the Internal Revenue Service is one of the “dark money” groups pouring anonymous funds into elections since the Citizens United ruling.

In a recent hearing on dark money, some very smart people shared their thoughts about big money's corrupting influence on our democracy, and what might be done to limit …

The Government Integrity Fund spent most of its money on election ads, despite IRS rules prohibiting a social welfare nonprofit from doing so.

The election of the FMLN's Salvador Su00e1nchez Ceru00e9n to El Salvador's presidency in a clean election with a minimum of outside interference represents a victory in itself.

This month the US Supreme took another step toward the destruction of campaign finance reform with a five to four decision known as McCutcheon v. Federal Elections Commission.

As voting begins in India in the largest elections the world has ever seen, we spend the hour with Indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy.

On the 20th anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa, it is the resistance and real democratic progress of the time that should be celebrated, says John …

A ground-breaking report released this month reveals that Big Oil spent $123.6 million to lobby elected officials in California over the past 15 years.

Here are six political opinions Sen. Sanders has articulated in recent months that Kevin Mathews would love to see the next US president pursue.

Wisconsin has high rates of participation, short lines and no problem with fraud, yet Republicans have remained uniquely fixated on enacting sweeping changes to how the state's elections are …