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How an elite group of corporations, unions and super-rich individuals is financing the political parties, shaping the political agenda and reaping great rewards with huge soft money contributions. Swanee Hunt [...]

Ask Florence George Graves why she was so dogged in her reporting of the story of Bob Packwood's sexual misconduct, and she's likely to respond, with characteristic self-deprecating humor, that [...]

In the stranger-than-fiction world of Washington politics, it's worth remembering that former Sen. Bob Packwood once had to be dragged from his office and then carried onto the Senate floor--feet-first--before [...]

Budget analyst Robert Greenstein says the nation's fiscal problems are real, some of the proposed solutions won't work, and citizen involvement is needed to save us from a fate worse [...]

Still going strong at 88, consumer advocate Esther Peterson encourages the dispirited to 'get off their fannies and do something' about the state of American democracy. On the wall there [...]

Lined up like so many naughty schoolboys sent to the principal's office for making spitballs, the seven suited tobacco executives stood at attention, raised their right hands and swore to [...]

Beyond the exclusive development's entrance, with its carpet of purple pansies and a stand of young maple trees, down a winding road lined with a classic white fence, faux-antique street [...]

What happens when a high-profit HMO and a friendly state government decide to do business together. It's worth remembering two years later, how the bungling of health insurance benefits for [...]

It looks like something right out of the democracy-in-action section of a civics textbook. On a Friday night in October at a suburban Washington hotel, some 250 eager college students [...]

It was 1992 and President George Bush and his political strategists were looking for a new Willie Horton, a political albatross that would sink Bill Clinton the way racially tinged [...]

Photographer Carole Gallagher left New York to pursue a story most Americans would like to forget. When the Atomic Energy Commission began exploding nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert in [...]

Photographer Carole Gallagher left New York to pursue a story most Americans would like to forget. When the Atomic Energy Commission began exploding nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert in [...]

Author Jonathan Kozol talks about education reform, choice and Chelsea's school. When Bill and Hillary Clinton announced in early January that their daughter, Chelsea, would be attending an exclusive private [...]

Isaac Fullwood, former police chief of Washington DC quit his post to become director of the district's youth anti-crime programs. Fullwood believes along with many others that the best way to deal with crime is by prevention.

For some people it's the fear that does it: a reluctance to go out after dark, a constant tendency to glance back, a lump in the throat as the children [...]

Incumbent politicians often use their influence and promises of funds for their reelection campaigns, and Pres Bush is no exception. Cabinet members such as Lynn Martin spend much time campaigning. Some transparently political uses of Bush's office are listed.

The 1988 election campaign's 'Team 100' comprised 249 wealthy donors who gave at least $100,000 each. Many subsequent connections to specific federal political favors are described.

For all his decrying of the health care crisis, Pennsylvania Democrat Harris Wofford can say one good thing has come of it: It fueled his unexpected Senate victory over former [...]

A NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS IS FIGHTING TO BRING BACK THE CITIES. The man makes it sound so simple. 'My career goal has always been to manage a city of [...]

Angered by new regulations that restrict the use of campaign funds, members of Congress have gone after the nation's elections watchdog. Although they're in the business of policing electoral campaigns, [...]

A front-row look at the hottest show in town. Welcome to intermission here at C-SPIN's Health Care Reform Theatre. With the release of President Clinton's health care reform plan -- [...]

The biggest donors give to both Pres Bush and Bill Clinton in order to hedge their bets and maximize their influence. Favors by Bush to his largest 1988 donors and Clinton's 19 'soft money' contributors of more than $100,000 are listed.