(NOTE: This is the first of two parts on political spending by independent expenditure committees and how this practice has perverted...

(NOTE: This is the first of two parts on political spending by independent expenditure committees and how this practice has perverted...

The half-life of a failed political campaign is normally about 15 minutes. You lose and you’re forgotten pretty quickly even though the...

The half-life of a failed political campaign is normally about 15 minutes. You lose and you’re forgotten pretty quickly even though the...

My Lewiston Tribune column of October 19, 2018 ————- Paulette Jordan, the Democratic candidate for governor of Idaho, has created in a...

My Lewiston Tribune column of October 19, 2018 ————- Paulette Jordan, the Democratic candidate for governor of Idaho, has created in a...

“…this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the...

“…this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week confronts partisan politics and history in a way that will profoundly impact the court as an institution...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week confronts partisan politics and history in a way that will profoundly impact the court as an institution...

How far we have come, or perhaps fallen. The Republican romp across the electoral map yesterday may or may not prove to be a defining...

How far we have come, or perhaps fallen. The Republican romp across the electoral map yesterday may or may not prove to be a defining...

First the admissions: Democrats – thank Nancy Pelosi as well as the president for this – completely lost control of any coherent message...

The intersection of money and politics, both at the fringes and at the center of our democracy, has often led to full-blown scandal....

The Court heard arguments yesterday in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a sort of sequel to the 2010 Citizens United case that...

Don’t get me wrong, I love the biggest big city in the world. It’s the capitol of everything from food to finance, but New York is also...

David Cay Johnston calls the “unfortunate tendency…to quote people accurately without explaining the underlying context.” The story of...

Roberts: The Chief Makes History There will be days and days of analysis – some of it even important – of today’s historic Supreme Court...

Corporations Really Are People While the nation holds its collective breath over the fate of Obamacare (hint, it’s going down) the...

On the presidential campaign trail in 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain regularly invoked Theodore Roosevelt as his role model. “I count...