2024-04-25 02:11
Since 2019 and earlier, the Arabella Advisors network has been the biggest politically charged philanthropic network in America. The Arabella network has been instrumental in almost all the… Read More
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2024-04-25 01:56
CRC’s Scott Walter recently appeared on The Bill Meyer Show to talk about his latest book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming… Read More
2024-04-24 02:29
CRC’s Scott Walter recently appeared on The Pro America Report with Ed Martin to talk about his latest book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly… Read More
2024-04-22 17:46
In a State of the Union speech that many commentators noted was starkly partisan and histrionic in tone, President Joe Biden laid out a left-wing agenda of tax hikes, environmentalist mandat… Read More
2024-04-22 17:31
After getting bachelor’s, law, and master’s degrees from Harvard, Richard J. Tofel began an interestingly varied career by first practicing law in 1983. He has since also been as… Read More
2024-04-22 17:31
After getting bachelor’s, law, and master’s degrees from Harvard, Richard J. Tofel began an interestingly varied career by first practicing law in 1983. He has since also been as… Read More
2024-04-19 18:25
The below article originally appeared as a contribution to “The Commons” in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on April 1, 2024.
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As the media and elites across… Read More
2024-04-19 14:02
It might be America’s worst teachers’ union—and knowing American teachers’ unions, that’s saying something. Since its takeover by a radical-left-wing, militant… Read More
2024-04-18 17:29
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Senate Budget CommitteeWritten Statement: HTML or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video, question, and text
Full Committee Hearing (Senate website)Questions for… Read More
2024-04-18 15:10
Last week, longtime National Public Radio editor Uri Berliner wrote an op-ed on his recent experiences at the media company for the Free Press, the Substack-based media outlet led by former… Read More
2024-04-18 03:02
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children (full series)The First Formal Sex Ed | Since the Sexual RevolutionWhat’s Best for the Kids | Are There Any Solutions?
What’s Best… Read More
2024-04-18 03:02
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children (full series)The First Formal Sex Ed | Since the Sexual RevolutionWhat’s Best for the Kids | Are There Any Solutions?
Summary: Since it… Read More
2024-04-18 03:02
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children (full series)The First Formal Sex Ed | Since the Sexual RevolutionWhat’s Best for the Kids | Are There Any Solutions?
Are There Any Sol… Read More
2024-04-18 03:02
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children (full series)The First Formal Sex Ed | Since the Sexual RevolutionWhat’s Best for the Kids | Are There Any Solutions?
Since the Sexual… Read More
2024-04-17 16:04
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a little known lefty climate advocacy nonprofit that wants industrial society to run on weather-dependent wind and solar energy and … Read More
2024-04-17 02:55
Some on the ostensible right, most prominently the network of activists and think tankers involved in and surrounding the think tank American Compass (which receives major, at least six-figu… Read More
2024-04-16 16:00
What is the Capital Research Center (CRC)?
Capital Research Center (CRC) is an investigative and research think tank based that investigates who is pulling the strings and funding extreme ac… Read More
2024-04-16 01:56
The most-insightful critiques of progressive technocratic centralism come from those to its further left. In 2003, for example, Harvard sociologist and political scientist Theda Skocpol poin… Read More
2024-04-12 14:14
Journalism is changing, with nonprofit outlets, especially on the left, playing an increasing role in how information gets to the people. Just this week, the press has praised States Newsroo… Read More
2024-04-12 03:15
CRC’s Scott Walter recently appeared on the Jesse Kelly Show to talk about his latest book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America.
Whil… Read More
2024-04-12 01:10
Populist conservative U.S. Sen. J. D. Vance of Ohio and progressive Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island last month introduced a bill that would end tax-free mergers and taxpayer subsidie… Read More
2024-04-09 18:18
When you were in 4th grade frantically completing a timed multiplication test, if you were any color other than white, you were being oppressed by the pressure to get it done quickly. Were y… Read More
2024-04-09 18:02
Arabella Advisors is a for-profit Beltway-bandit consulting firm that has built up a network of a half dozen nonprofits that in turn sponsor hundreds of fake groups that look very grassroots… Read More
2024-04-08 20:21
In trying to describe what my boss Scott Walter’s new book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America is actually about, I mentioned to a f… Read More
2024-04-08 15:49
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies (full series)“Equal Chances” Fallacy | Racial FallaciesKnowledge Fallacies | Affirmative Action
Racial Fallacies
Hogberg In chapter two… Read More
2024-04-08 15:49
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies (full series)“Equal Chances” Fallacy | Racial FallaciesKnowledge Fallacies | Affirmative Action
Knowledge Fallacies
Hogberg: The title o… Read More
2024-04-08 15:49
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies (full series)“Equal Chances” Fallacy | Racial FallaciesKnowledge Fallacies | Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action
Hogberg: In chapter f… Read More
2024-04-08 15:49
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies (full series)“Equal Chances” Fallacy | Racial FallaciesKnowledge Fallacies | Affirmative Action
Summary: “Social justice” ha… Read More
2024-04-05 14:13
Listen to “Episode 311: Government Voter Registration” on Spreaker.
It is increasingly well known, including through the work of our Capital Research colleague Parker Thayer exp… Read More
2024-04-05 03:06
“Wind turbines are like strippers. They stop working when you stop throwing money at them.”
—Author unknown
The price of climate pork has shot up 2,000 percent, thanks to t… Read More
2024-04-04 03:25
The 20th annual Proxy Preview was recently released. As in past years, it provides a detailed window into the coordinated and largely left-leaning campaign to use environmental, social, and… Read More
2024-04-04 03:05
CRC’s Michael Watson was interviewed on Labor Relations Radio about why unions are now supporting “open borders.”
As Watson explains, in 2000 the AFL-CIO executive council… Read More
2024-04-02 18:11
We do know, don’t we?, that money can, in fact, solve a lot of problems—maybe not all of them, and it can create or exacerbate some, but it can certainly be of help in trying to… Read More
2024-04-02 01:01
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Senate Budget CommitteeWritten Statement: HTML or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video, question, and text (below)
Full Committee Hearing (Senate website)
Oral… Read More
2024-03-29 14:07
Have you ever wondered how and why Big Labor became such a driving force in American politics, and how it’s come to be associated with the American left and the Democrat party? Many ma… Read More
2024-03-29 03:23
CRC is pleased to announce that the January 2024 issue of Capital Research is now available online.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
CRC’s InfluenceWatch takes an in-d… Read More
2024-03-29 02:19
In perhaps one of the greatest messaging coups of all time, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation—an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and wealthy lef… Read More
2024-03-27 17:05
Newsguard Technologies is in the business of rating the news. One example is the firm’s “nutrition label,” a supposed reliability rating that it assigns to well-trafficked… Read More
2024-03-27 13:20
The top foundations financing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are refusing to rule out future support of CAIR even after the Capital Research Center alerted them to its exec… Read More
2024-03-26 19:24
In 2000, the executive council of the AFL-CIO made what union-activist publication Labor Notes called “a dramatic reversal of its past policy” on immigration. In Labor Notes&rsqu&hell…Read More
2024-03-25 12:03
As we and colleagues at Inequality.org have recently been getting “together to discuss what’s gone awry in the current state of charitable giving and the incentives our tax… Read More
2024-03-22 13:48
Congressional debate over the social media app TikTok has brought the subject of China’s influence operations into sharp focus for many Americans who might have known China was a geopo… Read More
2024-03-22 02:59
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: The Government Workers Rise and Labor’s Center Falls (full series)A New Power Rises | Labor’s Private-Sector Left | Causes of the Long De… Read More
2024-03-22 02:59
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: The Government Workers Rise and Labor’s Center Falls (full series)A New Power Rises | Labor’s Private-Sector Left | Causes of the Long De… Read More
2024-03-22 02:59
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: The Government Workers Rise and Labor’s Center Falls (full series)A New Power Rises | Labor’s Private-Sector Left | Causes of the Long De… Read More
2024-03-22 02:59
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: The Government Workers Rise and Labor’s Center Falls (full series)A New Power Rises | Labor’s Private-Sector Left | Causes of the Long De… Read More
2024-03-22 02:59
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: The Government Workers Rise and Labor’s Center Falls (full series)A New Power Rises | Labor’s Private-Sector Left | Causes of the Long De… Read More
2024-03-21 14:32
During the months leading up to June 2023’s Supreme Court decisions finding race-conscious college admissions to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, some i… Read More
2024-03-21 02:49
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Senate Budget CommitteeWritten Statement: HTML (below) or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video, question, and transcript
Full Committee Hearing (Senate website… Read More
2024-03-20 18:37
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Senate Budget CommitteeWritten Statement: HTML or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video (below), question (below), and transcript
Full Committee Hearing (Senate… Read More
2024-03-20 03:27
Karl Zinsmeister‘s length and variation of professional experience, along with his depth and breadth of knowledge, give rise to a wisdom from which more should benefit. Luckily, he sha… Read More
2024-03-20 03:27
Karl Zinsmeister‘s length and variation of professional experience, along with his depth and breadth of knowledge, give rise to a wisdom from which more should benefit. Luckily, he sha… Read More
2024-03-19 02:19
The lack of organizational support for elections administrators is a travesty, and public distrust of election results is dangerous, or so the Left says. That’s why a handful of megado… Read More
2024-03-18 18:29
I taught professionally for 15 years, focusing my career on teaching English language learners and those behind in reading. I planned on staying in my tenured position as a public school tea… Read More
2024-03-15 14:00
Wind power sounds lovely; supposedly free, indeed infinite “renewable” clean energy from the predictable patterns of moving air. Except it isn’t quite so simple. Turbines c… Read More
2024-03-14 14:24
The proposed ban on TikTok, the app that seemingly shows every young person in the world in at least one dancing video or activist rant, is a lesson in paradox and lobbying.
Sure, it&rs&hell…Read More
2024-03-13 17:37
Enel: An Italian Energy Giant Invades America (full series)Eating Up the Environment | Trespassing Against the Osage NationVirtue Signaling | The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
T… Read More
2024-03-13 17:37
Enel: An Italian Energy Giant Invades America (full series)Eating Up the Environment | Trespassing Against the Osage NationVirtue Signaling | The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
V… Read More
2024-03-13 17:37
Enel: An Italian Energy Giant Invades America (full series)Eating Up the Environment | Trespassing Against the Osage NationVirtue Signaling | The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
S… Read More
2024-03-13 17:37
Enel: An Italian Energy Giant Invades America (full series)Eating Up the Environment | Trespassing Against the Osage NationVirtue Signaling | The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
T… Read More
2024-03-12 19:02
In 2021, a virtually unknown private foundation briefly became a leading 501(c)(3) funder of two of the country’s most well-known environmental direct-action groups. While this would b… Read More
2024-03-12 01:26
If transparency amounted to anything more than a self-serving platitude to America’s professional philanthropic class, the newly released National Study on Donor Advised Funds&nbs&hell…Read More
2024-03-11 19:09
Last week, it emerged that California’s fast-food minimum wage law, which was enacted to avoid a ballot-measure fight over its sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the influential Servi… Read More
2024-03-08 15:10
In 2022, Patagonia outdoors-wear brand owner and self-described socialist Yvon Chouinard and his family transferred ownership of the company to Holdfast Collective, an LLC that controls 98 p… Read More
2024-03-07 19:20
Jeffrey E. Paul’s fine Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It, new from Encounter Books, be… Read More
2024-03-06 18:17
Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to writing big checks for politically charged philanthropy. The $400 million Zuckerberg distributed to local election offices through the Center for Tech and C… Read More
2024-03-06 04:43
Some community foundations have been using a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Horizon Forum to screen grant recipients. This is problematic because SPLC ha… Read More
2024-03-06 04:17
The origins of Russiagate have been coming into clearer focus over the last few weeks, thanks to collaboratively produced investigative reports from Public and Racket News. The revelations… Read More
2024-03-04 18:25
Longtime labor journalist Hamilton Nolan’s new book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor is a progressive call for the weakening America… Read More
2024-03-01 15:00
You’ve probably heard of the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing radical faction we most recently discussed in episode 302 for its financial problems. But the DSA is just a… Read More
2024-02-29 19:54
We are saddened to report the death on February 25 of Willa Ann Johnson (1942–2024), the founder and first president of the Capital Research Center (CRC). Willa was a conservative visi… Read More
2024-02-29 19:12
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive enough that movies have been made about it, federal legislation has been passed to combat it, and senior union officials have done hard time fo… Read More
2024-02-28 19:05
Capital Research Center president Scott Walter discusses campaign finance and election integrity with Josh Findlay, director of the Election Protection Project at the Texas Public Policy Fou… Read More
2024-02-28 16:47
When U.S. Sen. J. D. Vance proposed a bill last December that would increase the excise tax from the current 1.4% to 35% on the net investment income from the endowments of secular… Read More
2024-02-28 04:13
Danish Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Climate-Left Cash . . . and Some Electricity (full series)Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon | “Unexpected”“Extraordinarily Rare” | Supp… Read More
2024-02-28 04:12
Danish Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Climate-Left Cash . . . and Some Electricity (full series)Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon | “Unexpected”“Extraordinarily Rare” | Supp… Read More
2024-02-28 04:11
Danish Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Climate-Left Cash . . . and Some Electricity (full series)Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon | “Unexpected”“Extraordinarily Rare” | Supp… Read More
2024-02-28 04:10
Danish Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Climate-Left Cash . . . and Some Electricity (full series)Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon | “Unexpected”“Extraordinarily Rare” | Supp… Read More
2024-02-26 18:43
Planned Parenthood boasts that it is the nation’s largest sex education provider, “reaching 1.2 million people a year through education and outreach.” Recently, a video fro… Read More
2024-02-23 15:03
In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed chi… Read More
2024-02-22 19:38
Summary: An InfluenceWatch author has been anticipating that someone would criticize us for his reluctance to include the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) on our list of more than 200 gro… Read More
2024-02-21 20:12
As the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, Glenn Harlan Reynolds has studied and taught about law and technology and constitut… Read More
2024-02-21 20:12
As the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, Glenn Harlan Reynolds has studied and taught about law and technology and constitut… Read More
2024-02-20 19:34
On the Question of Right Fights (full series)Factions on the Right | Dueling ManifestosNational Conservatism at Arms | Postliberals for American Liberalism“Grill Dad Republican”… Read More
2024-02-20 19:33
On the Question of Right Fights (full series)Factions on the Right | Dueling ManifestosNational Conservatism at Arms | Postliberals for American Liberalism“Grill Dad Republican”… Read More
2024-02-20 19:33
On the Question of Right Fights (full series)Factions on the Right | Dueling ManifestosNational Conservatism at Arms | Postliberals for American Liberalism“Grill Dad Republican”… Read More
2024-02-20 19:33
On the Question of Right Fights (full series)Factions on the Right | Dueling ManifestosNational Conservatism at Arms | Postliberals for American Liberalism“Grill Dad Republican”… Read More
2024-02-20 19:33
On the Question of Right Fights (full series)Factions on the Right | Dueling ManifestosNational Conservatism at Arms | Postliberals for American Liberalism“Grill Dad Republican”… Read More
2024-02-19 20:51
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim-American community was challenged to condemn the attacks and rebut Al-Qaeda’s justifications. They did. Today, the Muslim-American communit… Read More
2024-02-16 15:01
Whether or not it is the cause of recruiting shortfalls or not, rising left-wing ideology in the military is cause for concern. But who is pushing the military to adopt widespread social-lib… Read More
2024-02-15 19:43
Ken Braun, CRC senior investigative researcher, testified about ranked-choice voting before Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections January 9, 2024.
CRC has identified tens o… Read More
2024-02-15 03:42
The Progressive International (full series)The “Left of the Left” Goes Global | Israel the EnemyMembers | Leadership
Israel the Enemy
While the United States (and the capitalist… Read More
2024-02-15 03:42
The Progressive International (full series)The “Left of the Left” Goes Global | Israel the EnemyMembers | Leadership
Members
The Progressive International thus sits at the very i… Read More
2024-02-15 03:42
The Progressive International (full series)The “Left of the Left” Goes Global | Israel the EnemyMembers | Leadership
Leadership
The Progressive International is led by a Council… Read More
2024-02-15 03:42
The Progressive International (full series)The “Left of the Left” Goes Global | Israel the EnemyMembers | Leadership
Summary: A persistent problem in contemporary sociopolitical… Read More
2024-02-14 04:34
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Committee on House Administration
U.S. House of RepresentativesWritten Testimony: HTML (below) or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video, text , and highlig… Read More
2024-02-14 04:03
Media coverage of a lawsuit in California against President Joe Biden over his administration’s aid to Israel is leaving out a critical element: The coalition bringing the suit is led… Read More
2024-02-12 16:55
How many times have you moved since you graduated college? Lots, probably, but somehow, they always find you.
If the FBI was half as successful at keeping tabs on wanted criminals as your al… Read More
2024-02-09 16:20
As state legislatures convene in what is likely to be a competitive federal election year, what can states do to ensure their elections are fairly conducted? Jason Snead of the Honest Electi… Read More
2024-02-09 15:55
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the Committee on House Administration
U.S. House of RepresentativesWritten Statement: HTML or PDF
Oral Testimony: Video, text (… Read More
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