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Transparency
June 12, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Ron DeSantis’s Latest Pathetic Attempt to Mimic Trump Fails Miserably
A Florida appeals court slapped down DeSantis’s effort to invoke executive privilege.
May 12, 2023
Casey Michel
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again
One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.
March 17, 2022
Matt Ford
The Pandemic Brought New Levels of Transparency to the Supreme Court. Why End It?
Real-time audio broadcasts of oral arguments have been a tremendous boon to our civic life and should be made permanent.
August 18, 2021
Magazine
Jacob Silverman
The New WikiLeaks
How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange
January 1, 2021
Joshua Eaton
How Biden Can Bring Transparency Back to Government
Federal secrecy reached new heights under Trump, but there’s a lot the incoming president can do to let the sunshine back in.
June 27, 2020
Matt Ford
America Has a Secret Police Problem
There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.
September 18, 2019
Casey Michel
How to Stop Kleptocrats From Stashing Their Cash in America
New legislation in Congress aims to impose much-needed transparency on anonymous shell companies.
November 9, 2018
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Norman J. Ornstein
The Republicans Broke Congress. Democrats Can Fix It.
A roadmap for House Democrats between now and the 2020 election
April 14, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Trump administration isn’t even going to pretend to be transparent.
January 15, 2016
Christopher J. Gill
How Should A Scientific Meta-Analysis Be?
March 18, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Chris Christie Scandal Just Got Worse
March 1, 2013
Yochai Benkler
The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
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