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Todd Suomela

Open CRS Network - CRS Reports for the People - 0 views

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    A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.
Fredric Markus

Protected classes: sexuality - 9 views

Fredric Markus wrote: > Now we are blessed - and cursed - with great change in these matters. The academic world has come around to an understanding that situational understandings of "normal" are...

Todd Suomela

Sunlight Foundation - Insanely Useful Websites - 0 views

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    The following sites and resources are "insanely useful Web sites" for government transparency.
Todd Suomela

History Commons - 0 views

  • The History Commons contains summaries of 10,441 events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation). You can even generate a “scalable context” timeline for any event in the History Commons database simply by clicking the date of the timeline entry. You can search for events by using the search box at the top right-hand corner, or by browsing through the list of projects.
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    The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue, providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of government and private sector entities.
Todd Suomela

Open Left:: Moral Politics: What Is A "Public Good"? - 0 views

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    But the distinction between "common" and "public" is not one that most people in most circumstances wish to preserve. Indeed, one of the functions of democratically-grounded government is to seek to functionally eliminate that distinction for its citizenry as much as possible in terms of their day-to-day lives.
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