I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night with Conservative Commentator Horace Cooper, and Attorney and Senior Fellow-National Center for Public Policy Research and Libertarian Charles Sauer, an Economist and President of The Market Institute. We discussed the Warren-McCain ...read more

More and more outlets are covering the story of The Mayday PAC, and whenever important issues with tons of moving parts take over the newsstands (see: net neutrality, Terry Richardson, hardcore hallucinogenic drugs, etc.) we get to the bottom of it by interview the world’s ...read more

Campaign fundraising is a really complicated issue. Or at least, it appears to be very complicated. Somehow, what seems to be a very simple concept -- that money is the dirty part of politics and it probably should have the most oversight and regulation -- has gotten really ...read more

by Kim Barker ProPublica,Feb. 20, 2013, 11 a.m. A former Illinois congressional candidate and a government watchdog organization have teamed up to sue the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the agency should bar dark money groups from funding political ads. The lawsuit, ...read more

Hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads against President Barack Obama couldn’t deliver the presidency to Republican Mitt Romney. (Photo credit: mittromney.com) By Michael Winship: Forty years ago, as a young, aspiring political operative, I was a staff member on Sen. ...read more

By Michael Winship: That ringing in your ears isn’t church bells or a touch of tinnitus. It’s the sound of campaign cash registers all over the country, chiming together like the world’s biggest carillon, as money pours in as never before. The total being spent for all the ...read more