Turn a public archive into evidence you can cite.

The public archives of the United States wait for no one: the government's official record, twenty years of a news network's own transcripts, every public word of every president since 1789, television monitored hour by hour. They are open, and almost nobody walks in, because the door is an API and an API looks like a programmer's business. This course opens nine of those doors in front of you, one per lesson. In each one you write the question in plain words, an AI writes the code, the code runs in Colab, and the answer comes back as a file you own, with the date and the query written inside it. Six of the nine archives ask for no account and charge nothing; the other three give their key away, and GovInfo's two windows open with the same one. What all of them ask for is judgment: the time window, the word, the row ceiling and the collection are your decisions, and every lesson shows on screen the moment a careless one changes the answer. A column that comes back empty, a table that stops at thirty-two rows, a machine that invents a fact the page never held: none of it was edited out. It was worked out in front of you, because that is where the technique lives.

The platforms that resell public data hand you a polished chart and keep the query, the ceiling and the date to themselves. Their business succeeds when you depend on them. This course succeeds when you can go to the original archive, ask in your own words, and say where every number came from, including the numbers that contradict you. There is no middleman here: every lesson runs against the archive itself, with the code in view, and goes home in a notebook you can change.

A course about evidence should survive being asked for its own. Every figure on screen came out of the run you are watching, with the query and the date saved into the same file you take home. When an archive answered badly, that stayed in the lesson: the empty column from the Federal Register, GDELT's silent ceiling, the fact an AI invented about a CNN transcript. All nine lessons of the redesign are here, each one passed the same check before it came in, and the price does not move. And every lesson closes with a notebook that runs, the skill written out in words so you can ask an AI for the technique, and the run's results in a file, so the next question is yours.