The Texas Tribune spots what could possibly be the first corporate-sponsored political advertisement allowed under the Citizens United ruling. The... View Article
Continue readingHealth Care Recap: Interest Group Power
I noticed this post last week from Matt Yglesias dinging Ezra Klein on the power of interest groups in light... 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 readingPublic=Online Launch Event @ Google
“I can’t think of a more important word in politics than transparency.” Those words were spoken by Huffington Post’s Technology... View Article
Continue readingRanking Occupations by Ideology
This is a really clever infographic by Adam Bonica showing the ideological placement of occupations through an examination of their... View Article
Continue readingIdea to Action: Launching the Public=Online Campaign
Ultimately, Public=Online is focused on getting government to pass the transparency laws we need - laws that put government information online in real-time where we can use it - and we're going to do that by building a demand for transparency that is so large it cannot be ignored by politicians.
Continue readingSupreme Court unveils new website: how does it look?
New website Last year, we made suggestions about how the U.S. Supreme Court should redesign its website. Today, the Court... View Article
Continue readingLunchtime Links
1) The Washington Post has an excellent infographic on House health care votes, campaign contributions and percent uninsured in district.... View Article
Continue readingWhere’s CONAN? 6 months later, still no sign of legal treatise
On the 220th birthday of the Constitution, Sunlight made a simple request: the fantastic legal treatise known as the Constitution... View Article
Continue readingVideo: Press Conference Announcing the Public Online Information Act
Representative Steve Israel, Sunlight Executive Director Ellen Miller, and Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Andrew Rasiej announce the introduction of the... View Article
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