Useful and Fun Political Links

[fitzley]

Here is a list of useful and fun links I give out to my students. Many of these focus on American politics...so, if our international friends have comparable links for the politics in their country...please post them!

Any political links that you have found useful or fun...respond to this thread with them!

CIA World Factbook

Get comparative statistics and information on any state in the world.

FactCheck

FactCheck is a site dedicated to identifying or clarifying misleading claims made by U.S. politicians.

GovTrack

With GovTrack, you can track the most recent Bills and activities of The United States Congress.

Moral Political Test

Political test that measures your political ideology based off four dimensions of your personal moral system.

OnWar

A nice site that has information on every major and minor conflict in modern world history.

Political Compass Test

Another four dimension political test based off of your views on different propositions.

Polity IV Index

Measure of democracy around the world based on a scale of democratic and autocratic features. Compare different political systems by looking at the country reports.

Polling Report

Great site for tracking current U.S. public opinion polls from a variety of major national polls.

Project Vote Smart

Project Vote Smart is a site dedicated to gathering information about current and potential candidates for U.S. national office. Great resource on getting informed on where politicians stand on various issues.

Real Clear Politics

A useful website that gathers political news articles from a variety of sources.

Watching America

Curious what the rest of the world is saying about the United States? Find out here.

[Pandorag]

Have you heard about Wikileaks lately?

What do you think about it? Are you surprised that someone is finally using the Internet to do that?

[Dutch90]

Have you heard about Wikileaks lately?

What do you think about it? Are you surprised that someone is finally using the Internet to do that?

Government secrets have been leaked onto the Internet for years, but this is the first time someone had the balls to create an entire website for that exclusive purpose.

[Pandorag]

How reliable can it be? How can we know for sure? Do we admire that he has the balls to do it and admit he's doing it and are blinded by it? Is he only telling us what we want to hear?

This is very intriguing to me, the whole process of truths and beliefs. 

[deezelboy]

I admire that they had the balls to set it up, greater transparency being a very good thing, and I really admire the technology behind the site.  As to what's on it, it's like everything else: you have to use your own judgement and that of those that you trust (or don't) to work out if it's legit or not.

Although generally the reaction of the organisations the leak has been from speaks volumes in itself!

Government secrets have been leaked onto the Internet for years, but this is the first time someone had the balls to create an entire website for that exclusive purpose.

It's the first one that guarantees at some pretty good degrees of anonymity to whoever uploads it too, which is very nifty indeed.  

A number of, erm, sensitive documents pertaining to the organisation I work for got upped to Wikileaks last year.  That was quite interesting to watch.

[Hieronymus]

Whistleblowers keep people honest.  The world needs more of them.

[CanadianHero67]

Moral Political Test

Political test that measures your political ideology based off four dimensions of your personal moral system.

Your scored -1 on Moral Order and -1 on Moral Rules.



The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

System: Liberalism
Ideology: Capital Democratism
Party: Democratic Party
Presidents: John F Kennedy
04' Election: John Kerry
08' Election: Barrack Obama

Of the 623,885 respondents (11,392 on Facebook):

14% are close to you.
24% are more conservative.
15% are more liberal.
34% are more socialist.
14% are more authoritarian.