By Ben Cohen: It's fairly clear that the Republican Party is in a state of serious disarray after getting hammered in the general election. The once unified party has begun to crack at the seams, fracturing over issues that were once untouchable cornerstones of Republican ...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

By Stephen Engelberg and Kim Barker: The emergence of nonprofits as the leading conduit for anonymous spending in this year's presidential campaign is often attributed to the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which opened the money spigot, allowing corporations and ...read more

By Kim Barker: Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together, new spending estimates show. These nonprofits, also known as ...read more

By Bob Cesca: As I write this column today, the Supreme Court could, at any moment, hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. I don't feel particularly hopeful about this one, given the crap-on-a-stick precedent of Citizens United and the ...read more