It’s become popular in certain circles to assail political transparency as a nefarious threat to free speech.

If political cartoonists cheered the arrival of Donald Trump on the campaign trail, investigative journalists are rubbing their hands over Newt Gingrich’s recently-announced candidacy.

Tea party activists have taken some lumps lately, but they’re not going down without a fight.

A White House plan to force federal contractors to more fully report their political spending has outraged business leaders and Senate Republicans, setting the stage for a legal challenge.

If celebrity mogul Donald Trump has enjoyed favorable early poll ratings and a burst of media coverage, his personal fortune gets the credit. Without his vast wealth, the bombastic, flamboyant Trump would be dismissed out of hand.

Five months after a midterm election that turned in part on GOP warnings that Democrats’ health care overhaul would gut Medicare, liberal activists may soon give Republicans a taste of their own medicine.

In theory, Republicans hold all the cards in the high-stakes gamble known as redistricting, which this year is attracting unprecedented money, litigation, and public scrutiny.

As Washington lurches toward a possible government shutdown, negotiators sparring over federal spending at least agree on one thing: There’s got to be a better way.

The Dodd-Frank financial reforms enacted last year have unleashed lobbying battles on several fronts, but none has been so pitched or costly as the fight over debit card swipe fees.

Frustrated by the growing secrecy that shrouds political spending, some good government advocates have set out to at least pull back the curtain on lobbyists.