Stories by Ari Berman

In 2011, 196 individual donors provided nearly 80 percent of the money raised by super PACs.

Who's in the bipartisan group of Washington elites that focused for so long on deficits while the economy stagnated?

A mixture of Republican stubbornness and Democratic timidity has brought us to this point.

Obama ushers a telecom lobbyist, chief architect of NAFTA and current Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase into the #2 job in the White House.

If this is how Obama plans to govern in the future, we’re in for a rough next two years.

The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that the state cannot bar gay couples from seeking to marry.

He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's advisers have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions and made good money on the side.

The level of John McCain's ties to lobbyists has reached dizzying proportions.

Despite being "demoted" for pushing a free trade deal with Colombia that Hillary opposes, Penn is still plotting her campaign strategy.

No one won. No one lost. And Clinton needed more than a tie to change the course of this race.

"527s" in Iowa food-fight.

If Hillary Clinton really wanted to curtail the influence of the powerful as she says in her speeches, she might start with the advisers to her own campaign, who represent some of the weightiest interests in corporate America.

The congressional reaction to Hezbollah's attack on Israel and Israel's retaliatory bombing of Lebanon provide the latest example of why AIPAC's lock on US foreign policy in the Middle East must be examined.

DeLay's indictment sent a shock wave through the GOP, which is already reeling from a swath of criminal and ethics investigations.

Behind Capitol Hill's Democratic war hawks like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton stands a 'strategic class' of political and media enablers.

With Al Gore's progressive cable channel, what began as an effort to challenge the right-wing domination of the corporate media has transformed into a business proposition to lure a youth audience.