Randi Weingarten: A Study in Hypocrisy
Over the past year and a half, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has been a controversy magnet. Demanding flexibility for teachers and restrictions for students,…
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Humanitarian Crisis on the Border: How We Got Here
Beyond the Biden administration’s string of unforced errors that have helped create and exacerbate the crisis on the U.S. southern border are organizations and people using the migrants as pawns…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Community Foundations
America has always had its patricians, but as the word suggests, they saw themselves as patriotic “fathers” of their country, and their wealth and prestige were tied up in their…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Grants
So which politically active organizations are the biggest beneficiaries of community foundation money? To sift through tens of thousands of grants and avoid cherry-picking recipients, we identified nonprofits that are…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Donors
Community foundation grants ultimately originated with (mostly) anonymous donors, not the community foundations themselves, which serve as conduits for donor-advised-fund account holders. The largest community foundation givers on this list…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: What Is Philanthropy For?
Who does philanthropy serve? Until we answer that question—one that our forebears understood—community foundations, private foundations, and 501(c) groups are immaterial. Philanthropos is the love of mankind rooted in the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #187: The Business of Woke
“Woke capital”—social liberalism, especially focused on critical race theory and its intellectual children “antiracism” and “equity” carried out by businessmen rather than politicians or traditional nonprofit activists. Much has been…
How the Left Is Spreading Global Warming Alarmism on the Right
If there’s one thing the Left knows cold, it’s deception. Owning the battlefield in this war starts with controlling the language. We’ve seen this play out in the debate over…
Michigan’s Redistricting Commission: Unaccountable, Undemocratic, and Overpaid
Michigan’s new and supposedly “independent” legislative redistricting commission has begun to resemble a bad TV sit-com. Each episode of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission show features the hapless antics…
International Finance and Intrigue in Lucifer’s Banker Uncensored
In Lucifer’s Banker Uncensored, Bradley C. Birkenfeld spins a compelling tale of power and corruption at the highest levels of international finance, tax evasion, political scandal, and government corruption. It…