Albany did it again. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan ground to a halt at the intersection of undemocratic legislative rules and absurdly lax campaign finance laws....
For the first time ever, presidential candidates have managed to turn small donors into their greatest funding source, sending signals that the small-donor revolution has officially arrived....
The on-going prosecution of Illinois real estate developer Antoin “Tony” Rezko has been a source of much drama. But anyone who is familiar with Illinois’s political contributions laws knows there’s more to the scandal than meets the eye...
Certain American values transcend partisan divisions. One is that money should not influence the courts. But with record sums pouring into judicial elections, the ideal of due process is giving way to a perception of pay-to-play justice...
There's been a lot of talk lately about whether presidential candidates Obama and McCain have a "deal" to accept public funding if they are their parties' nominees...
