The 2020 elections, like so many in recent American politics, returned a mixed verdict. Republicans lost control of the White House and the direction of the administrative state, but the…
The left-wing advantage in election funding through public policy and “dark money” groups increased in the 2018 elections. In the 2018 election cycle, liberal grantmakers increased their public policy 501(c)(3)…
Adam Garfinkle’s article about his favorite non-technical neologisms in the new American Purpose last week makes for a day-brighteningly fun and thought-provoking read. One of its entries is perhaps of particular, poignant…
On Friday, December 4, CRC president Scott Walter was interviewed on Sandy Rios in the Morning about Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). He and Sandy discussed how CTCL…
Democrats had no shortage of left-wing “dark money” groups at their backs in the 2020 election. Chief among them was the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group and the…
CRC President Scott Walter appeared on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight on December 4, 2020, to discuss Mark Zuckerberg's and wife Priscilla Chan's massive $350 million grant to the Center…
After the New York Post published emails from Hunter Biden that demonstrated Joe Biden lied to the public about his involvement with Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine, Twitter blocked all…
Fund for the Republic president Robert M. Hutchins delivered a speech, forcefully defending philanthropic foundations—their prerogatives, practices, and positions—on January 26, 1955, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Hutchins’…
As states finalize their results or find the ballots they misplaced or lost the sticky notes for—looking at you, New York Twenty Two—the debate over election procedures shifts from the…
Imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor’s preferred party, and counties receiving “help” were disproportionately ones…