Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.
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The FEC Just Slapped Koch Brothers Groups with a Big Fine
In a sign that, surely, the end times are near, the partisan-deadlocked Federal Election Commission actually agreed to enforce campaign-finance laws-six years after the fact. Three groups funded by Charles and David Koch’s expansive political network agreed to pay $233,000 in fines to the FEC for illegally hiding the identities of donors to their 2010 […]
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Trumping the Media
Wall-to-wall media coverage of Donald Trump has boosted ratings, but reflected poorly on a news industry increasingly mistrusted and vulnerable to manipulation.
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Judicial Spending Blitz in Arkansas Spurs Calls for Reform
A $1.1 million corporate spending blitz that helped defeat two candidates for the Arkansas Supreme Court has prompted the state legislature to call for reforms that would either eliminate judicial elections, ban undisclosed “dark” money in those races, or both. The two candidates in question, Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson and Little Rock attorney Clark […]
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Huckabee Super PAC Ad Blasts Cruz in Bid for Evangelical Vote
In the fight for Iowa’s evangelical support, GOP candidates are taking aim at the Texas senator.
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Presidential Ads and the Legality of Lying
As presidential campaigns enter offensive mode leading up to the Iowa caucus, candidates-as well as their personal super PACs and supportive dark-money nonprofits-are starting to launch their respective ad blitzes. And not surprisingly, many of them feature fast and loose interpretations of facts. The presidential election is an open race with over a dozen Republican […]
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Which Southern State Is Feeling the Brunt of Big Money Election Spending?
It’s not just North Carolina.
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Listen Up, Ladies: Republicans Understand You
You’re into stuff like wedding dresses and boyfriends, right?
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What America Needs Is More Senators Who Can Handle Themselves In a Firefight
In Kentucky, even Democrats shoot guns in their campaign ads.
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The Difference Between Accuracy and Fairness In Campaign Ads
The average negative ad is quite accurate, and also quite unfair. And there’s nothing we can do about it.
