Nation Topics - Citizens United | The Nation

Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.

Why the rich keep getting richer and our democracy is getting poorer.

When Congress, the president and the media run roughshod over popular will and citizen action, small-d democracy pays the price.

Looking toward 2012, ALEC is peddling “Voter ID” laws to disenfranchise voters least likely to support their right-wing candidates.

If Democrats follow Republicans in raising millions from undisclosed sources, they will undermine their moral argument for campaign finance reform.

Momentum is growing to reform campaign finance and rebalance our election system.

Inside the right's campaign to hijack our country's founding text—and how to fight back.

Was the Supreme Court's infamous decision a desecration, or only what the Constitution requires? A First Amendment scholar and civil liberties advocate debate.

The former senator talks about money and politics, connecting with voters in the age of mass media and his future in public life.

Unchecked by campaign finance regulation, unchallenged by a journalism sufficient to expose abuses, a nearly unbeatable force opposed progressives in 2010.