Center for Constitutional Rights
Advances and protects the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Cases include illegal detentions, Guantanamo, surveillance and attacks on dissent, criminal justice and mass incarceration, corporate human rights abuse, government abuse of power, racial/gender/economic justice, and international law and accountability.
The League of Women Voters
Project Vote Smart
Project Vote Smart is a national. nonpartisan organization that provides information on candidates and issues for state and national elections.
C-SPAN.org C-SPAN, a private, non-profit website offering a unique look into the operation of the U.S. Congress. Provides access to both live stream and archived recordings of complete and unedited sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, committee hearings, White House press conferences, panel discussions, hearings, interviews, and more.
FactCheck.org From the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. “We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters.... We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players....”
PolitiFact.com “PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times to help you find the truth in American politics” See the “Truth-O-Meter”, “Flip-O-Meter”, etc.
Politico Political journalism, congress, elections, lobbying. “...journalism that insists on the primacy of facts over ideology.”
OpenSecrets.org; Center for Responsive Politics "OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy." That is, who gives how much to who.
National Security Archive
The National Security Archive is an independent nongovernmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University. The archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The archive claims to have the world's largest nongovernmental library of declassified documents, including thousands of documents relating to nuclear history. US - Japanese relations, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and other crises of the 1960s and 1970s.
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources A British site with worldwide coverage that includes area studies by countries, official government pages, constitutions, treaties and official declarations, and political parties' homepages.
Don Page
djpage@csupomona.edu
October 2009
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