Fewer than one quarter of the witnesses testifying before House committees during the current session of Congress are women, a Sunlight analysis of newly available data shows.
Continue readingElectioneering: Now is the time to not see it
In the final months before the midterm elections, reporting requirements on nonprofits' "issue advertising" will ramp up.
Continue readingEmergency room reports reveal racial disparity in injuries caused by police
Hospital emergency department records collected by the CDC reveal not only a racial disparity in the number of nonfatal injuries caused by law enforcement but also an upward trend in their frequency over the last decade.
Continue readingWhat can we learn from 800,000 public comments on the FCC’s net neutrality plan?
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposed rules regarding net neutrality resulted in the commission’s largest-ever public comment collection. Use this visualization to browse the hundreds of thousands of documents in a simple and manageable way.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Climate change and narcotics occupy feds
This week in Influence Analytics: the social cost of coal, regulating narcotics and a controversial EPA proposal on greenhouse gases.
Continue readingHow the Lobbying Top Tier explains an influence paradox
Measuring political influence is a hard problem. And depending on how you set about measuring it, you can come to very different conclusions.
Continue readingDeath by Law Enforcement: What the data tells us – and what it doesn’t
In Missouri, black people are killed by law enforcement twice as frequently as white people. Nationwide, the rate at which black people are killed by law enforcement is 3 times higher than that of white people, according to the CDC.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: protecting farm workers from pesticide exposure
A controversial proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen protections for farm workers from adverse effects of pesticide exposure has drawn hundreds of thousands of comments.
Continue readingLiberal super PAC donors gearing up; Bankers and teachers groups lurch to life
Wednesday's filing deadline at the FEC brought with it a new trove of campaign finance data. See some of the juiciest nuggets in our monthly filing round-up.
Continue readingMichael Bloomberg pours millions into abortion fight
New FEC documents from Women Vote!, a Super PAC affiliated with Emily's List, show the former Mayor gave the group a $2 million cash infusion in July.
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