Since the beginning of the 2014 campaign cycle, 14 donors — from a hedge fund manager to a gay rights activist to a venture capitalist — have given $100,000 or more to President Obama's uncampaign committee, Organizing for Action.
Continue readingA better way to explore foreign influence
Sunlight today unveils a 2.0 version of its foreign influence tracker.
Continue readingForeign dictionary: Translating FARA terms into plain English
Confused by some of the legalistic terms on the FARA forms? This cheat sheet will help.
Continue readingNo Justice Roberts, the Internet can’t do government’s job
Chief Justice John Roberts thinks the Internet can save democracy from big money. As some of the Internet's most devoted users, we disagree.
Continue readingWhy does the IRS regulate political groups? A look at the complex world of campaign finance
The controversy over the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for non-profit status from Tea Party groups has put a spotlight on a subject with which we at the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group are all too painfully familiar: The migraine-producing complexity of the nation's campaign finance system. To shed some light on the ongoing debate, we've decided to share what we know.
As often is the case with systems worthy of Rube Goldberg, it's easier to draw than to describe.
Bob Edgar: 1943-2013
It would be hard to imagine anyone who more perfectly and consistently embodied the principles that animated his all-too-short life... View Article
Continue readingAjaj: Ajax2.0
Is Ajaj the new Ajax?
Continue readingInstant APIs: no code necessary, just add mouseclicks
APIs and mashups are the bread and butter of the Sunlight Labs. In fact, the official name of the the Labs is actually The Sunlight Mashup Labs, so it is perhaps not surprising that we headed off to the MashupCamp 3 at MIT, Cambridge a couple of weeks ago to geek out and to see the latest happenings, trends and players in the world of mashups and technology.
Continue readingWhy offline is the new online
The history of computing has some interesting trends. First it was all about mainframes. To get anything computed you had to logon to some remote machine so large that if filled a room. Then came along the desktop; desktop apps were (and arguably still are) it. In the 1990's, however, things got pushed onto the web, web sites were the thing, and now with the rise of Ajax, web apps are becoming the new it.
Continue readingThe convergence of Ajax and Flash
While reading a couple of posts in Ajaxian about hacking the canvas tag with a flickr stream and a mootools-based image gallery stream it struck me just how sophisticated some Ajax-based UIs have become, so much so that it has become harder to tell what is and is not flash.
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