Legislative data is only the beginning to understanding what Congress does and how it works. That’s why earlier this month GovTrack.us launched GovTrack Insider, a blog on Medium covering Congress’s daily activities. Each […] More

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 2014 (IPS) – A federal jury here Wednesday convicted one former Blackwater contractor of murder and three of his colleagues of voluntary manslaughter in the deadly […] More

Congress’s official count of new laws, in the Resume of Congressional Activity, got it wrong for the 2013 legislative session. If Congress can’t count its own laws, they have some […] More

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Imagery analysts. Photo: U.S. Air Force. Hundreds of private sector intelligence analysts are being paid to review surveillance footage from U.S. military drones in Central Asia and the Middle […] More

CNN Tells Viewers It’s Illegal For Them To Read Wikileaks Document Dumps. CNN Is Wrong from the you’re-not-helping dept I cut the cord years ago, so the only time […] More

One of the biggest economic and political stories of this decade has been China’s emergence as the world’s biggest creditor country. At least in a ‘flow” sense. China’s current account […] More

Screenshot of Vigilant Solutions database. Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their […] More