FCC takes on super PACs
The commission voted to require stations to post political ad data online -- but it won't be searchable
Friday, Apr 27, 2012 6:05 PM UTCPolitics 2012 Elections, Advertising
Justin Elliott
justin@salon.comPolitics 2012 Elections, Advertising
The Citizens United tax break?
Corporations may be writing off the money they're donating to political nonprofits
Monday, Mar 19, 2012 8:21 PM UTC 18News Campaign Finance
The GOP’s new love of “dark money”
In 2000, it was Republicans like McCain and Castle -- not Democrats -- who were pushing for donor disclosures
Thursday, Mar 8, 2012 9:28 PM UTCPolitics Republican Party
Can the NYPD (legally) spy on mosques?
A civil liberties expert explains how the city's Muslim surveillance program may have broken local and federal laws
Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012 9:43 PM UTCNews NYPD, National security
A Mormon “frontlash” for Romney?
The Republican front-runner is benefiting from LDS voters in Nevada; we look at Mormon voting patterns
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 35News 2012 Elections, Mitt Romney
Congress protests Obama on Bahrain arms sale
18 representatives and three senators point to continued human rights abuses in letter to Hillary Clinton VIDEO
Friday, Feb 3, 2012 5:07 PM UTCNews Bahrain, Middle East
WikiLeaks sheds light on Adelson’s Asia business
Cable describes shutdown of a $100 million Adelson nonprofit in Beijing and refers to "missteps" in China
Friday, Feb 3, 2012 1:00 AM UTCNews 2012 Elections, China, Gambling
Vast gender disparity in super PAC giving
More than 85 percent of the donors to Romney and Obama super PACs were men in 2011
Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 1:00 AM UTCNews 2012 Elections, War Room
Meet Karl Rove’s Sheldon Adelson
Texas billionaire Harold Simmons has given $7 million to a Rove-affiliated outside group VIDEO
Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 5:37 PM UTCNews 2012 Elections
Huntsman’s dad bankrolled his campaign
The super-rich founder of the family's giant chemical company provided most of the money for the Huntsman super PAC VIDEO
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 4:44 PM UTCNews 2012 Elections, Jon Huntsman
U.S. secrecy system “literally out of control”
In the latest freedom-of-information blow, agencies ignore a transparency order from the president himself
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 3:00 PM UTC 19News Barack Obama
Obama quietly sells arms to human rights-abuser Bahrain
And the administration isn't saying what exactly is being given to the regime, which has attacked protesters
Monday, Jan 30, 2012 3:28 PM UTC 28News Bahrain, Barack Obama
The grim future of campaign finance
The immediate reform fight is not about stopping the flow of money, but rather securing mere disclosure
Saturday, Jan 28, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 18News 2012 Elections
Newt Gingrich: Anti-poverty crusader?
The unlikely story of how the man who blasts Obama as a "food stamp president" saved a key Great Society program
Friday, Jan 27, 2012 2:00 PM UTCNews Newt Gingrich, 2012 Elections
Wall Street execs are major Obama fundraisers
Bundlers from the securities industry have raised at least $9 million for the Obama campaign so far
Thursday, Jan 26, 2012 1:00 PM UTC 28News Barack Obama, 2012 Elections
What the Adelsons will want for their money
The $10 million in pro-Newt money that transformed the GOP primary appears to be all about US policy toward Israel VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 5:04 PM UTC 140News Newt Gingrich, 2012 Elections
Romney aide lobbied for high-speed rail
Ron Kaufman is one of the lobbyists who advise Mitt Romney, who is attacking Newt Gingrich for his lobbying past
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 11News 2012 Elections, Mitt Romney
Romney attacks Newt as “lobbyist”
Even as he goes after Gingrich for working for Freddie Mac, Romney has surrounded himself with lobbyists
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 4:00 PM UTCNews 2012 Elections, Lobbyists
Rate of Americans killed in Afghanistan soars
As President Obama escalated the war, the numbers of soldiers and civilians killed rose dramatically
Monday, Jan 23, 2012 9:06 PM UTC 13News Afghanistan
Dodd accused of “bribery” over SOPA remarks
Hollywood's top lobbyist warns Democrats that his industry will cut off the money flow if they don't get in line
Monday, Jan 23, 2012 4:03 PM UTC 40News Campaign Finance
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