2023-03-30 18:07
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the Jussie Smollet hoax, the attack on the Waukesha Christmas parade, the organized mob lootings in San Francisco, and now the potential indictment of President D… Read More
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2023-03-30 14:16
A leading complaint of the “labor conservatives” aligned with Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) is that American business, especially big busine… Read More
2023-03-29 18:08
Gun Control Advocacy (full series)Landscape | Funders
The first part of this series—“The Landscape of Gun Control Advocacy”—examined nonprofit gun control activist gr… Read More
2023-03-28 21:59
Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against open flesh
No room to rest, pain consumed each breath
Shot twice with her hands up
Po… Read More
2023-03-27 18:04
We are pleased to announce that the January 2023 issue of Capital Research is now available online.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
Michael Watson skewers the technocratic m… Read More
2023-03-24 21:14
The sword of Damocles hanging over much of what the new GOP-led House is planning to investigate in any number of coming hearings – everything from COVID origins to tech/government col… Read More
2023-03-24 14:27
What connects the disruptive protests against a conservative judge’s speech to Stanford Law and the arrests of over two dozen demonstrators outside Atlanta? Both involved people aligne… Read More
2023-03-23 18:25
At the time of writing 27 states and the executive branch of the U.S. government have banned TikTok on government devices. This policy will likely expand in the coming months as politicians… Read More
2023-03-22 19:21
President Joe Biden took office in 2021 vowing to reward organized labor for the support it gave him, and his administration has done its level best to deliver those rewards. It has granted… Read More
2023-03-21 20:49
Dozens of gun control advocacy groups are active in the United States, and detailed financial information is available on at least 50. This includes groups organized as 501(c)(3) charities… Read More
2023-03-20 21:19
If Americans think they’re mad at tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Twitter for censorship and suppression of speech, they should know that their anger apparently doesn’t co… Read More
2023-03-17 18:06
The Left is fond of criticizing “dark money,” alleging that anonymous giving to politically inclined conservative nonprofit organizations has a corrupting influence on American p… Read More
2023-03-17 14:10
To readers of the Capital Research Center or InfluenceWatch, none of the findings reported by New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and stay-at-home mother, children’s book edit… Read More
2023-03-16 23:25
All contributions to The Giving Review online symposium, which have been published here during the past weeks, are now compiled in one printable document, “Conserva… Read More
2023-03-15 18:03
The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: “Workers of the world, unite!” Why does he do it? … I think it ca… Read More
2023-03-14 16:40
On Thursday morning, the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing to examine the Twitter Files.
On Thursday afternoon, Jamie Roe was told… Read More
2023-03-13 17:59
In perhaps one of the greatest messaging coups of all time, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF)—an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and we… Read More
2023-03-11 17:28
Waging a Good War: A Mostly Unhelpful History of the Civil Rights Movement (full series)Tortured Thesis | He Is Writing This Because . . .The Army of One
Tortured Thesis
“A search of t… Read More
2023-03-11 17:27
Waging a Good War: A Mostly Unhelpful History of the Civil Rights Movement (full series)Tortured Thesis | He Is Writing This Because . . .The Army of One
He Is Writing This Because . . .
Ret… Read More
2023-03-11 17:26
Waging a Good War: A Mostly Unhelpful History of the Civil Rights Movement (full series)Tortured Thesis | He Is Writing This Because . . .The Army of One
The Army of One
The clumsy military… Read More
2023-03-10 16:21
In late 2021, following a class action suit in which the Supreme Court decided some college athletes should be allowed to earn money off their image and likeness, a Biden administration lawy… Read More
2023-03-09 19:55
The world is leaving behind the age of lockdowns and mask mandates. Five million swarmed Argentina’s capital to celebrate their World Cup victory, and even New York Mayor Eric Adams (D… Read More
2023-03-08 16:29
Should we believe big investment companies who claim they care deeply about the environment? What about the loudest activist voices who say they care, like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg? Or the… Read More
2023-03-07 18:52
Capital Research Center has issued the following press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/7/2023
Capital Research Center Welcomes New Education Research Fellow Kali Fontanilla
Who remembers t… Read More
2023-03-06 21:05
We have a literacy crisis in America. Math competency is down for nearly all demographic groups. Given these facts, should teachers take precious time in the classroom to deliver lessons on… Read More
2023-03-03 15:04
Thirty years ago, Al Gore took office as Vice President of the United States. Over the intervening period, he has lost a campaign for President and reinvented himself as the Nobel Peace Laur… Read More
2023-03-03 09:54
A prolific author and incisive commentator, Joel Kotkin is the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., executive director of Urban… Read More
2023-03-02 18:26
Greenwich, CT: Today there will be a Zoom forum on “Future of Greenwich Elections: 3rd Party Money and Influence” at 7 pm Eastern. This townwide conversation will be hosted by Gr… Read More
2023-03-02 16:15
Are America and broader Western Civilization in crisis? Today’s guest, author Spencer Klavan, says yes, and he has written How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises &hell…Read More
2023-03-01 22:26
Joanne Florino is the Adam Meyerson Distinguished Fellow in Philanthropic Excellence at the Philanthropy Roundtable. Last month, she contributed to The Giving Review symp… Read More
2023-02-27 21:48
The shock troops of social justice unionism, the project that aligns labor unionism with the full spectrum of left-wing ideology, have been the writers’ unions at major media outlets… Read More
2023-02-24 19:21
You don’t have to look far to find the left’s multi-million dollar activist machine in action. Now they are turning their sights on Kansas, a red state they hope to flip blue&mda&hell…Read More
2023-02-23 21:22
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom (full series)The Past Is Prologue | Educational MalfeasanceTeachers’ Unions | Growing School Competition
Editor’s Note: In Crisis in t… Read More
2023-02-23 21:21
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom (full series)The Past Is Prologue | Educational MalfeasanceTeachers’ Unions | Growing School Competition
Educational Malfeasance
Throughout… Read More
2023-02-23 21:20
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom (full series)The Past Is Prologue | Educational MalfeasanceTeachers’ Unions | Growing School Competition
Teachers’ Unions
Teachers&rsq&hell…Read More
2023-02-23 21:19
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom (full series)The Past Is Prologue | Educational MalfeasanceTeachers’ Unions | Growing School Competition
Growing School Competition
The abys… Read More
2023-02-22 17:02
How to Save the West, the debut book from Claremont Institute editor and podcast host Spencer Klavan, sets itself an impossible task with its title—one its author tacitly admits in his… Read More
2023-02-21 19:25
Washington, D.C.’s Revised Criminal Code Act, which softens penalties for a wide range of criminal offenses within the district, is controversial to say the least.
Last week… Read More
2023-02-20 15:33
This article was first posted on February 17, 2014.
In ancient Rome, politicians lied about the start of the new year. The Clinton administration lied about the beginning of the new ce… Read More
2023-02-20 15:33
This article was first posted on February 17, 2014.
In ancient Rome, politicians lied about the start of the new year. The Clinton administration lied about the beginning of the new ce… Read More
2023-02-17 16:09
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have b… Read More
2023-02-16 22:42
Martin Morse Wooster, 1957–2022 (full series)Book Man | Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Martin Morse Wooster, longtime seni… Read More
2023-02-16 22:41
Martin Morse Wooster, 1957–2022 (full series)Book Man | Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Martin’s Genuine “Civic… Read More
2023-02-16 22:40
Martin Morse Wooster, 1957–2022 (full series)Book Man | Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Mar… Read More
2023-02-15 16:00
In a new paper about the treatment of churches as organizations exempt from taxation under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, co-authors Ellen P. Aprill and Lloyd H… Read More
2023-02-14 19:40
The period following the census each decade is critical for political parties. The census determines how many congressional seats—as well as Electoral College votes—each state re… Read More
2023-02-13 19:48
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:47
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:46
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:45
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:44
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:43
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-13 19:42
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: An Anniversary AnalysisGlacial Recount | Snow Job | The Scary SeasBridge Fuel to Nowhere | Favoring Failure | Blood & GoreIt Could Have Happen… Read More
2023-02-11 04:47
CRC’s Hayden Ludwig recently appeared on Rebuild California to discuss “dark money” and how the Left has using the nonprofit sector for political gain.
The Left has g… Read More
2023-02-10 15:12
The recent Supreme Court case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that curtailed a state’s ability to infringe on Americans’ right to carry publicly for their… Read More
With Attempted Repeal Of ‘Zuckbucks’ Ban, Virginia Dems Aim To Flood Elections With Billionaire Cash
2023-02-09 18:17
Last spring, Virginia Democrats and Republicans banned private funding for elections as part of a nationwide surge in election integrity bills meant to push back against the lawles… Read More
2023-02-08 16:59
In September, two months before the 2022 elections, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced that the committee had “surpassed another historic milestone: over 50 million vote… Read More
2023-02-07 21:29
The Left’s “Dark Money” Plot to Take Over Election Administration (full series)Power of Election Officials | Clerk WorkU.S. Alliance for Election Excellence | Big Tech Fund… Read More
2023-02-07 21:29
The Left’s “Dark Money” Plot to Take Over Election Administration (full series)Power of Election Officials | Clerk WorkU.S. Alliance for Election Excellence | Big Tech Fund… Read More
2023-02-07 21:29
The Left’s “Dark Money” Plot to Take Over Election Administration (full series)Power of Election Officials | Clerk WorkU.S. Alliance for Election Excellence | Big Tech Fund… Read More
2023-02-07 21:29
The Left’s “Dark Money” Plot to Take Over Election Administration (full series)Power of Election Officials | Clerk WorkU.S. Alliance for Election Excellence | Big Tech Fund… Read More
2023-02-06 20:03
As the 118th Congress’s House of Representatives gets off to its stuttering start, the new majority Republicans are eager to pursue all manner of investigations into potentially corrup… Read More
2023-02-03 18:05
Most Americans have probably seen or heard advertisements from lawyers in recent months regarding contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Attorneys have reportedly been spendin… Read More
2023-02-03 15:01
Equal treatment under the law, regardless of race: One would think that all could agree on that principle, but in states and localities across the country—even in Republican-controlled… Read More
2023-02-02 21:29
In an ideologically polarized era, finding common ground can be tricky. Finding something on which almost everyone—right or left—seems to agree can feel impossible. In 2020, the… Read More
2023-02-01 16:27
With the rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activist investing and the increasing liberal tilt of the commanding heights of major corporations, many conservat… Read More
2023-01-31 22:06
Enemies of free speech apparently feel right at home in the country’s largest “dark money” lobbying empire. Case-in-point, the Dangerous Speech Project aims to “inocu… Read More
2023-01-30 22:51
In October 2022, the Ronald Brownstein of The Atlantic wrote an impassioned defense of the left-wing progressive criminal justice reform movement, claiming there is no clear connection betwe… Read More
2023-01-27 22:02
We are pleased to announce that the December 2022 issue of Capital Research is now available online.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
Michael Watson takes a tour of corruptio… Read More
2023-01-27 15:13
In 2022, Arizona passed one of the most comprehensive school-choice programs in the nation. But later that year, the state elected Katie Hobbs, a governor who is backed by the teachers&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-01-27 10:16
Since Encounter Books released Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class in paperback earlier this week, we republish the below art… Read More
2023-01-27 04:53
The Origins of “Zuck Bucks” (full series)Getting Out the (Democratic) Vote | New Organizing InstituteReaching the Emerging Majority | Center for Tech and Civic Life
Summary: The… Read More
2023-01-27 04:52
The Origins of “Zuck Bucks” (full series)Getting Out the (Democratic) Vote | New Organizing InstituteReaching the Emerging Majority | Center for Tech and Civic Life
New Organizin… Read More
2023-01-27 04:51
The Origins of “Zuck Bucks” (full series)Getting Out the (Democratic) Vote | New Organizing InstituteReaching the Emerging Majority | Center for Tech and Civic Life
Reaching the… Read More
2023-01-27 04:50
The Origins of “Zuck Bucks” (full series)Getting Out the (Democratic) Vote | New Organizing InstituteReaching the Emerging Majority | Center for Tech and Civic Life
Center for Te… Read More
2023-01-25 21:57
One of the more interesting aspects of the Biden classified documents drama is the appearance of a university-affiliated think tank, named for the president, that received millions as a… Read More
2023-01-24 18:01
If you read the metropolitan-liberal press, 2022 was the year that organized labor began the long march back to relevance, with massive organizing campaigns winning victories at the commandi… Read More
2023-01-24 03:27
[O]ur ability to accomplish great things as a nation has waned in recent decades,” laments Christopher Buskirk in his new America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitali… Read More
2023-01-20 15:38
It is well known that George Soros and his Open Society Foundations are major funders of left-wing advocacy, but a new report from Media Research Center shines the light on one facet of that… Read More
2023-01-20 11:00
Newly revealed documents acquired by the Honest Elections Project, John Locke Foundation, and reported in the Washington Examiner reveal how the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is infl… Read More
2023-01-19 23:22
Hayden Ludwig talked about Arabella Advisors and “dark money” on Uncover California with Lori Mills radio show. He explained how Arabella runs a network of five nonprofits, that… Read More
2023-01-18 16:50
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosts its annual conference of political officials, corporate bigwigs, and leaders of the professional Left-dominated nongovernmental organization world, th… Read More
2023-01-17 22:07
What did we do in 2022? From a communications perspective, we increased our reach into state media outlets, while continuing to develop news interest inside the Beltway. We topped out at ove… Read More
2023-01-16 18:01
Martin Morse Wooster was a longtime contributor to the work of Capital Research Center before his untimely death at the hands of a hit-and-run driver on November 12. In a forthcoming issue o… Read More
2023-01-14 04:07
CRC’s work on Arabella Advisors received official notice on Capitol Hill this week. On Tuesday, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) entered two parts of the CRC report “Arabella’s Long… Read More
2023-01-13 16:29
If you believe Axios and the Washington Post, this is just the latest GOP and conservative culture war: A ban on gas stoves proposed by the Biden administration-controlled Consumer Product S… Read More
2023-01-12 20:45
The Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)The Technocrats | The Great ResetThe Great Narrative | The Critics | Conclusion
In mid-2020, after COVID-19 and lockdown policies to (unsuccessfu… Read More
2023-01-12 20:44
The Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)The Technocrats | The Great ResetThe Great Narrative | The Critics | Conclusion
COVID-19: The Great Reset: A Litany of Bad Predictions
In July 20… Read More
2023-01-12 20:43
The Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)The Technocrats | The Great ResetThe Great Narrative | The Critics | Conclusion
The Great Narrative: A Bet on the Highly Unlikely
The ambition of… Read More
2023-01-12 20:42
The Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)The Technocrats | The Great ResetThe Great Narrative | The Critics | Conclusion
The Critics
The ambition of the Great Reset agenda was sure to pr… Read More
2023-01-12 20:41
The Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)The Technocrats | The Great ResetThe Great Narrative | The Critics | Conclusion
Conclusion
The technocratic mentality that pervades the World Eco… Read More
2023-01-11 19:10
New filings reveal how three of the largest foundations in the world are using Washington’s top “dark money” lobbying network to change policy in America, further evidence… Read More
2023-01-11 15:46
In the aftermath of an underwhelming performance by Republicans in the 2022 election, demands have echoed across the internet for conservative leaders to develop a ballot-harvesting and vote… Read More
2023-01-10 17:57
Hyrum and Verlan Lewis’ new The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America is a short, tightly argued, question-provoking “attempt to… Read More
2023-01-09 16:33
One of the ugliest surprises to emerge from the 2020 election was one billionaire’s partisan attempt to privatize the election process across America. By now, most have heard about Fac… Read More
2023-01-06 16:05
If one did not know any better, one would think the lockdown-and-mask era of COVID-19 had come to an end. Sure, some remote pockets of insanity—focused, for entirely explicable reasons… Read More
2023-01-06 15:07
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich claimed that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over” and that mass starvation was imminent. He was completely, utterly, and totally wrong. But because… Read More
2023-01-05 17:15
Most Americans have probably seen or heard advertisements from lawyers in recent months regarding contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Attorneys have reportedly been spendin… Read More
2023-01-04 16:38
If proof was ever needed that the Left’s cup runneth over with cash, here it is.
New filings reveal that George Soros’s nonprofit empire has poured out nearly $21 billion since 2… Read More
2023-01-03 23:27
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died yesterday [December 31, 2022], at the age of 95. Benedict always strongly defended and promoted simple Christian charity, carefully distinguishing it from a n… Read More
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