TOP NEWS: This weekend, Sunlight Foundation staffers asked people who attended the People/TIME White House Correspondent’s Cocktail Party if they’d... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Supreme Court could loosen bribery rules for politicians
BRANDEIS WEPT: Nina Totenburg reported that the nation’s highest court may be leaning towards voiding former Virginia Gov. Bob McConnell’s... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Scandal boosts Clinton’s political career
TOP STORIES: The cast of ABC drama “Scandal” supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign yesterday with a $5,000/person... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: The false choice between open data criticism and collaboration
TOP STORIES: Sunlight’s executive director, John Wonderlich, returned to the blog with this response to Tom Steinberg’s critiques of the... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Battleground (state) America
TOP STORIES: The Sunlight Foundation combined our analysis of Federal Election Commission data with interviews of reporters from the Arizona... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: FOIA reform in Congress close, but not headed to POTUS yet
TOP STORIES: Sunlight’s Noel Isama identified three big themes from the 2016 What Works Cities Summit: the need for institutional... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Reddit campaign shows consequences of FEC’s super PAC loophole
TOP STORIES: Last November, Sunlight reported on a blind spot for campaign finance rules. Our piece turned out to be... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: What A Wicked Web Of Campaign Finance We Weave
TOP STORY: Melissa Yeager dug into reader questions about campaign contributions, dark money and more. National “We The People” is... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Corruption currents, “pop-up PACs” and “factivism”
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
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