Citizens United

The US compares unfavorably to the many European countries that succeed in limiting the influence of corporate and other money in elections.

This week Bill speaks with investigative journalists Kim Barker and Andy Kroll about the role of dark money - and the wealthy donors behind it - in this year's …

Buying and selling political influence is a consensual crime with a radically different nature. Enforcing laws against this crime is practically impossible.

The humiliating summary reversal suffered by Montana in the US Supreme Court over its restrictions on campaign contributions could have been avoided, according to two attorneys who filed amicus …

In the wake of Citizens United, there is plenty of discussion of how campaign finance law might be changed to limit political participation by corporations.

The Brennan Center published a fact sheet detailing the Roberts Court's shift, in a series of decisions since 2007, toward favoring big money interests at the expense of average …

All those fancy-pants are forever protected in their gilded towers, while the rest of us are the ones caught with our pants down.

In the Citizens United era, it can more difficult to follow the money because of the anonymity 501(c)(4) Super PACs afford their donors. But that hasn't stopped Greg Palast.

To get the money out of politics, Ben Cohen and others are stamping all of their dollars with messages like “not to be used for buying elections.”

A law that limits the length of public campaigns to five months is among many serious efforts to restore the ability of ordinary voters to elect candidates who represent …