Politics & Elections

Former House Parliamentarian on how both parties change the rules when in the majority at the expense of real debate.

We marched for an hour and a half, taking up all lanes of a huge boulevard while hundreds of cops in riot gear followed behind, receiving occasional middle finger …

Terry McCauliffe and Bill DeBlasio defeated their Republican opponents in Virginia and New York, and more.

Lawmakers, investors and academics detail the benefits of SEC rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose political spending.

Is there any hope for relief from this bleak formula? Part of the answer depends upon whether at some point the veil of denial begins to shred.

US politics are "dismal, disgusting and infuriating." They will be until we all "do politics."

Bill takes on the Republican Party for their relentless attempts to kill the Affordable Care Act.

Bill Black: Both parties support Wall Street's effort to deregulate derivatives.

It seems telling that the most vocal people fervently endorsing many elements of the reform agenda have either a political or economic stake in moving those policies forward.

A new Public Citizen report shows the vast majority of the U.S. Chamber's annual expenditures comes from undisclosed sources.