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Philanthropy
A Wipeout for Those Refusing to Consider Much-Needed Reform of Tax-Exempt Sector
The House Ways and Means Committee budget bill has a number of items regarding the tax-exempt sector. In general, they are a wipeout for the sector and those refusing to…
by Dean Zerbe on May 23, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on May 23, 2025

Organization Trends
Never Trump Media Pundits: David Frum
Never Trump pundits who have previously identified as conservatives have had many homes within the regime media. Some have behaved in ways that make it hard to imagine them ever…
by Ken Braun on May 22, 2025

Organization Trends
Never Trump Media Pundits: Robert Kagan
Turning trees to cringe wasn’t always what readers expected from The Atlantic. Just prior to Trump’s first run for office, it was still a serious ideas journal. Since then, the…
by Ken Braun on May 22, 2025

Organization Trends
Never Trump Media Pundits: Jennifer Rubin
Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin also concluded she couldn’t endure working there after the newspaper’s non-endorsement. Rubin was considered right-leaning when hired by the Washington Post in 2010. By…
by Ken Braun on May 22, 2025

Organization Trends
Never Trump Media Pundits: David French
David French, a Never Trumper, has called the New York Times editorial page his home since January 2023. French’s columns betray an obsession with Trump, but in a way that’s…
by Ken Braun on May 22, 2025

Green Watch
The Rising Seas
In "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) film, former Vice President Al Gore proposed the Greenland ice sheet might melt, causing a 20-foot rise in sea levels, flooding Florida among other places.
by Ken Braun on May 22, 2025

Organization Trends
Episcopal Church Refuses to Help White South Africans
In a shockingly brazen mask-off moment, the Episcopal Church is ending its longstanding refugee program partnership with the U.S. government rather than help white Afrikaner farmers flee real persecution in…
by Kali Fontanilla on May 21, 2025

Foundation Watch
Meet Another Batch of Big Philanthropy–Funded Leftist Loons: The “Health Policy Research Scholars”
The quietly radical Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a Health Policy Research Scholars program that provides doctoral students interested in health policy with annual grants up to $30,000 over the…
by Michael Watson on May 20, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #364: Bullies Unite Here
In an era when fewer than six percent of private-sector workers are union members, it’s easy to forget how forceful Big Labor’s activists can be when they’re out rooting for…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on May 20, 2025