"There's another challenge that we must address and it is the corrupting force of the vast sums of money necessary to run for office. The unending c...
When will the public wake up to the pointlessness and waste in campaign finance? If the president can now strong-arm the Congress to pass a version of the original Simpson-Bowles plan, the election will have been a success
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee has counted more than $5 million in contributions it cannot use to help Republican candidates until af...
It wasn't too long ago when our democracy (one of the oldest in the world) was the envy of all other countries -- countries that were (and are still) ...
So what if a few citizens with funny-sounding names are getting purged from the voter rolls? I'll bet a lot of the countries these people came from didn't even have voting.
Money is merely a symptom of the root problems of disconnect -- nearly all of the problems with our government can be traced back to the disconnect between citizens and the government.
We must look at new ways to build coalitions that can promote big D democratic values. We need to get past our myopic obsession with "likely voters" and start reaching out to the constituencies that vote occasionally or are registered, but do not participate.
WASHINGTON -- Sometime in early February, top aides to Mitt Romney realized they had a major problem on their hands. The presidential campaign was spe...
WASHINGTON -- A federal rule meant to protect the lungs of workers has been caught in bureaucratic purgatory for more than a year now, frustrating pub...
If January's trend lines held through February, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign ran out of money two days ago. The former Massachusetts govern...
If belief in the integrity of the Supreme Court frays, the Court's power will fray as well. This is in no one's interest. We need a system of justice, but a system of justice that serves all of us.
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, his presidential money apparatus slowed only slightly, raised more than $31 million in April, outdist...
Last December, conservative author and CNN election analyst William J. Bennett gave over two thousand dollars to Sen. John McCain's presidential campa...
This was supposed to be the election year of big bucks. But John McCain, who has taken firm hold of frontrunner status, began 2008 with his campaign $...
