The Lawsuit Lobby’s Taxpayer Drain
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 spending vast sums on…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #255: COVID Relief Racism in Oklahoma and Georgia
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 states—that principle…
Civil Asset Forfeiture Makes for Strange Bedfellows
In 2020, the Capital Research Center (CRC) examined civil asset forfeiture and noted how criticism of the practice had brought together a rather improbable ideological coalition. As efforts to reform…
Conservatives Need Protection from Both Woke Business and Woke Labor
With the rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activist investing and the increasing liberal tilt of the commanding heights of major corporations, many conservatives have begun rethinking their and the Republican Party’s…
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Wants to Silence Free Speech
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 “inoculate” Americans against right-wing “hate” and…
How the Soft-on-Crime Sausage Gets Made
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 between rising crime…
Capital Research, December 2022
In the December 2022 issue of “Capital Research,” corruption has long been part of the union label. The Lawsuit Lobby exerts disproportionate influence on the legislative process, often against the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #254: The State of School Choice
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…
Revisiting Contemporary Philanthropy as Part of a First Estate “Clerisy”
The current equivalent of America’s First Estate clerisy, including that of it in establishment philanthropy, should self-awarely take cognitive-elite note of and understand the contemporary rise of this populist anti-establishment…
The Origins of “Zuck Bucks”: Getting Out the (Democratic) Vote
The New Organizing Institute (NOI) is the predecessor of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), the organization behind “Zuck bucks.” From 2005 to 2015, NOI had one purpose:…