Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested — until Kansans for Justice entered the fray earlier this month. Now the state's grappling with a new kind of dark money.
Whitney Ball, who oversees DonorsTrust, a conservative fund of $100 million, benefited from her father's unethical handling of an elderly woman's estate.
In recent years, the phrase “American exceptionalism,” at once resonant and ambiguous, has stolen into popular usage in electoral politics with a profligacy that is hard to account for.