Libertarian Elites to “Dethrone” Obama’s New Corporate BFF
Not many people know that General Electric has been a huge beneficiary of recent bank bailouts via its financial subsidiary GE Capital, which would be America’s eighth largest bank measured
Evidence of an American Plutocracy: The Larry Summers Story
“So here is the evidence for an American plutocracy of a narrow and discrete but hardly harmless sort. Wall Street seduced the economics profession not through overt corruption, but by
Obama Packs Debt Commission with Social Security Looters
LittleSis is expanding its investigation into the networks of money and influence behind efforts to gut Social Security. Join the Social Security Looters research group if you want to get
September 11, 1989
It wasn’t my intention, launching LittleSis with Kevin in January 2009, to be so consistently absent from our blog. Early on we made the decision to divide up our growing
NewsShift: Watchdog Journalism With a Long Tail
Every year for the past few years, Knight Foundation has conducted a News Challenge that awards about $5 million in funding to a selection of projects that Use digital open-source
New Ways to Follow the Money on LittleSis
Faithful readers may have noticed that a good chunk of our recent research has centered on analysis of campaign contributions made by various power players: Chicago 2016 Committee Gave More
LittleSis Goes Open Source: An Offering and an Invitation
As you may know, LittleSis is built entirely with open-source software, out of necessity as well as out of principle. Over the years the growing OSS movement has given budget-strapped
Chicago 2016 Committee Gave More to Obama than Goldman Sachs
At around noon Eastern time the International Olympic Committee is set to vote on the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The final candidates are Chicago, Madrid, Rio de
Rep. Grijalva: Everything in Baucus bill “had to be approved by the industry”
This morning Democracy Now! interviewed Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is vowing to withhold support from any health care reform bill lacking a strong
McKesson: Healthcare Giant, Network Hub
Last week Kyle wrote about some of the important names behind Chevron as part of our latest research project on LittleSis, which we’ve posted as a pitch on Spot.Us. We’re