Recent weeks have seen a ratcheting up of promises by outside groups to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the presidential race...

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...

Public funding offers the opportunity to show that these candidates truly do value voters over dollars...

The U.S. Senate’s passage by unanimous consent last week of the Second Chance Act of 2007 demonstrated that progressive reentry policies can unite both sides of the aisle. A New York bill dealing with notifying former offenders about their right to vote seems to have similarly risen above the political fray.