TOP STORY: Judge Thomas F. Hogan, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, rejected a legal challenge to rules... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: How influence peddlers shape policy in the dark
TOP STORY: Sunlight’s Libby Watson explains what “shadow lobbyists” are and how they win friends and influence people. “If you... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: FEC delays decision on foreign political money
TOP NEWS: The Federal Election Commission mulled over its options to curb foreign political money and chose to punt until... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Our New Gilded Age?
TOP NEWS: An analysis of federal campaign finance reports by the Washington Post found that 41 percent of the money raised... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Congress to debate merits of open government data!
Top Story: Congress to consider making open data the default in federal government. As soon as next week, the “Open, Permanent,... View Article
Continue readingCongress to consider making open data the default in federal government
This morning, we saw positive signs on the long road to baking open data into the way the federal government functions and discloses information to the people it serves.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: This Is Why Doing Your Taxes Is Still So Painful
Top Story: Lobbying is making Tax Day in the United States much more complicated than it has to be. Sunlight... View Article
Continue readingToday in Open Gov: #DemocracySpring?
More than 400 people were arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Monday protesting the influence of money on politics after... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Welcome to the age of (open) data breach journalism?
The Sunlight Foundation submitted comments on the U.S. government’s draft open source software policy today. Here’s the short version of... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Vote.gov, HomeStat and Panama Leaks fallout in the UK
President Obama urged viewers of American Idol to vote during the series finale of American Idol last night, suggesting that... View Article
Continue reading
59063
