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Remember the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill? The ideologues who control the Federal Election Commission are gutting it.
By Robert Capps
September 27, 2002
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After challenges from the House leadership, and mixed messages from the White House, campaign reformers finally win.
By Jake Tapper
February 14, 2002
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As both the House and Senate start their multiple queries into the collapse of Enron, the lead auditor takes the Fifth.
By Jake Tapper
January 25, 2002
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The Enron scandal exposes how the U.S. political system is bought and paid for.
By Julian Borger
January 15, 2002
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Sure, we need a special prosecutor -- but only campaign finance reform can clean up Washington's addiction to corporate cash and lift our government out of the muck.
By Andrew Leonard
January 12, 2002
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As Bush's buddies file for Chapter 11, the debacle has exposed the unseemly
link between money and political influence.
By Arianna Huffington
December 3, 2001
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The folksy GOP speaker shored up his right flank by killing campaign finance reform, but Christopher Shays promises he'll pay for it.
by Alicia Montgomery
July 14, 2001
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House GOP leaders lose a procedural battle to block campaign finance reform, but win the war. R.I.P. Shays-Meehan.
By Alicia Montgomery
July 13, 2001
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The Republican Party's zeal for raising money has even some of its own members worried.
By Jake Tapper
May 11, 2001
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The public has grown numb to campaign finance abuse. But the spicy Sen. Torricelli story could break through the sleaze fatigue.
By Arianna Huffington
April 24, 2001
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Campaign finance reform stifles grass-roots organizing and harms American politics, says a member of the Federal Election Commission.
By Suzy Hansen
March 30, 2001
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After a dramatic final tussle, the first sweeping campaign reform since the 1970s seems ready to pass the Senate.
By Jake Tapper
March 30, 2001
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McCain-Feingold gets a big hand from former actor Sen. Fred Thompson. But it ain't over 'til they roll the credits.
By Jake Tapper
March 29, 2001
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Stabbed in the back by his congressional colleagues, the nation's campaign finance crusader should take his battle to the people.
By Arianna Huffington
March 24, 2001
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Day 3: A moist moment between Kennedy and Hatch and a no-bad-news day for McCain-Feingold, but there's an awfully eerie calm.
By Jake Tapper
March 22, 2001
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Even a mild-mannered amendment can be a "poison pill" in disguise.
By Jake Tapper
March 21, 2001
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Why McCain's plan to target issue ads is vital to campaign finance reform.
By Arianna Huffington
March 17, 2001
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The list of civilians aboard the USS Greeneville doesn't reveal a fundraising scandal, but it does underscore the link between money and access to power.
By Daryl Lindsey
February 21, 2001
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California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform.
By Arianna Huffington
January 27, 2001
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Dennis Breen was a regular guy, fed up with the crookedness of political campaigns. So he ran one himself, after work and on weekends.
By T. Wright Townsend
November 10, 2000
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Corporations lavished more money than ever before on this year's political campaigns. So who stands to benefit?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 7, 2000
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A spunky shareholder resolution demands that the company account for its political campaign contributions.
By Janelle Brown
October 10, 2000
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Both George W. Bush and Al Gore have done their best to exploit a weakness in the campaign finance laws.
By Jake Tapper
September 28, 2000
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The Democrats railed at big corporations with one fist and took their money with the other, while Al Gore's speech invoked the class warfare politics of yesteryear.
By David Horowitz
August 21, 2000
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Even as their platform calls for an end to special interests, Democratic Party leaders happily imbibe free drinks from fat-cat corporate donors at swank parties.
By Jake Tapper
August 17, 2000
The foxes guarding democracy's henhouse
Reforms pass House
Let the games begin!
Getting to the bottom of Enron
Why Hastert played hardball
Let them spend millions
The education of John McCain
Oil tycoons on the submarine
Gov. Davis and the failure of power
Great American loser
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