Articles

Green Watch
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Promises More Wind and Solar—Hope You Like Buying Chinese
Count China among the biggest winners if the gargantuan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, if it passes Congress. The bill would allocate $148 billion to climate- and energy-related priorities intended to…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 14, 2021

Organization Trends
LUCHA’s Deep Ties to the Left
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) has ties to deep-pocketed organizations in Washington, DC, that run far deeper than Soros’s funding and extend back a decade. LUCHA was formerly…
by Parker Thayer on October 13, 2021

Organization Trends
Woke Children’s Books: Indoctrinating the Next Generation of Radicals
In the ongoing ideological battle between culture warriors on the Left and free marketers on the Right, the Left continues to push the envelope with its aggressive messaging tactics. It’s…
by Scott Walter on October 12, 2021

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #190: Big Left Philanthropy
The Ford Foundation: While created by a famed family of arch-capitalists, for decades the institution—long, though likely no longer, the largest private foundation in the country—has been the financial…
by Michael Watson, Michael E. Hartmann on October 11, 2021

Green Watch
Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is CRC's name for “the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 11, 2021

Dangerous Documentaries
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Modern Capitalism
In the tenth episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods and Michael Malice debunk modern day criticisms of capitalism. Capitalism hasn't made anyone poorer, but brought us from cavemen…
by CRC Staff on October 8, 2021

Dangerous Documentaries
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Industrial Revolution
In the ninth episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods and Michael Malice defend capitalism through stories from the falsely maligned Industrial Revolution. Rather than reducing quality of life…
by CRC Staff on October 8, 2021

Organization Trends
The Left-Wing Activists Behind the Most Sweeping Abortion Bill in US History
In case you missed it: House Democrats just passed the most expansive federal abortion access bill in American history, with plenty of help from professional activists. All but one Democrat,…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 7, 2021

Labor Watch
Criticizing Teachers Union Allies? You Might Be a “Domestic Terrorist.”
After a year of public school closures, mask mandates far stricter than in comparable international settings, and the exposure of radical-left social indoctrination in public school as endorsed by teachers…
by Michael Watson on October 7, 2021

Book Profile, Philanthropy
Robert Wuthnow’s Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy and Philanthropy
Wuthnow’s new book Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy places faith-based philanthropy in the context of that which has kept and will keep our democratic polity healthy. His general claim…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 6, 2021