Some thoughts on the strategy of retiring projects and how we look back at our work on the new tools page.
Continue readingSunlight’s Politiwidgets Makes Your Reporting Brighter. One Widget at a Time.
Everyone’s writing about politicians these days — especially these days — so Sunlight’s developed a tool to help enliven that... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: 12 Resources You Might Have Missed
Since I started the Tools for Transparency post back in July, I’ve written about quite a few social media resources... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: PolitiWidgets
PolitiWidgets are easy to use, customizable, political infographics you can embed into your article or blog post, offering your readers... View Article
Continue readingThe Drumbone API
On our new API homepage, we recently added the Drumbone API. It's a light, flexible, JSON-only API over Congressional legislator, bill, and vote data, and we currently use it in two of our products. I wanted to take a minute and explain why we built this, especially in the face of the existing suite of community sources for this data.
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