This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Sunlight Foundation. It is exciting to reflect on how far we’ve come,... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Live’s State of the Union Coverage
Last night the Sunlight Foundation’s award-winning Sunlight Live platform covered the State of the Union with context and fact-checking from... View Article
Continue readingBetter Draw a District – Doodle Your Own Gerrymander
One day, there will be a brilliant, easy-to-use tool that enlightens our citizenry on the intricacies of gerrymandering and the political machinations therein. But that day is not today.
Continue readingSunlight’s Checking Influence: Find the Politics in Your Pocketbook
The Sunlight Foundation is proud to announce our Checking Influence tool that gives individuals the power to see the political... View Article
Continue readingUsing Technology To Assist Declassification
by Sunlight Foundation policy intern Melanie Buck The role technology can play in streamlining the declassification process was the topic... View Article
Continue readingClearspending. That’s What We Need.
As I noted in my speech yesterday at the Gov2.0 Summit, Gov2.0 has become a popular catchphrase in Washington today... View Article
Continue readingLet the Sun Shine In
This Sunshine Week was a particularly successful (and busy!) time for Sunlight. We helped usher in new transparency legislation, launched... View Article
Continue readingWhy You Need to Download the Real Time Congress App for iPhone now
As a former Capitol Hill Communications Director, I can tell you that access to real-time information on what is happening... View Article
Continue readingSo, you want to know who is visiting the White House?
Last week, the White House released another set of visitor logs online and in a format that can be parsed... View Article
Continue readingIt Was A Very Good Year
Sunlight hasn’t been around nearly as long as that song — it was first recorded in 1961 and we opened... View Article
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