The most expensive, nasty and weird election season in recent years -- a campaign of witches, grizzlies and an Aqua Buddha -- is reaching its advertis...

If a for-profit wants to spend secretively, they can send their dollars through a non-profit who will do the spending for them. More than any election since Watergate, this midterm is looking like a win for obfuscation and loss for transparency.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Wearing a smart business suit and a friendly smile, political newcomer Linda McMahon easily sells herself as an entrepreneur ...

Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than...

A revamped regulatory landscape this year has elevated the attractiveness to political operatives of groups like Crossroads and others, organized unde...

In recent days, Ohio voters have probably seen a TV spot ripping Democratic "stimulus and debt" policies, courtesy of a group calling itself Crossroad...

Ten years ago while teaching political science at New England College in New Hampshire, I directed Common Cause, the nonpartisan good government lobby...

WASHINGTON — It's not even Labor Day and negative political ads are muscling in on your TV time. Across the country, ad spending is up and attac...

Democrats unveiled legislation on Thursday that will force corporate CEOs to say "I approve this message" in campaign ads bankrolled by their companie...

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the US Supreme Court has presented the United States with an astonishing future of unlimited spending on campaigns by corporations. We are facing the possibility of a true failed state.

Massachusetts elected a white male who supports water-boarding and troop increases and opposes the health care bill and the proposed tax on banks. Change? It doesn't sound like a new product to me.

The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to make George W. Bush President allow large corporations to spend as much as needed to place their candidates in offi...

WASHINGTON — Candidates can't use campaign money to improve their wardrobes, the Federal Election Commission said Thursday in a ruling that none...

WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain together spent $94 million in August, a record spree mostly aimed at about a dozen...

Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."

The federal agency in charge of policing the torrent of political spending during the upcoming presidential primaries will, for all practical purposes...