Best of CRC Media Hits for June 2021
Congress is out of session for a bit and Washington, DC is quieter and less busy – but there’s still an edge; a white-noise rumbling that fills the air that…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #177: Teachers Unions Running Wild
Our regular podcast host, CRC’s Research Director Mike Watson, is on vacation so CRC’s Director of Communications and External Relations Sarah Lee is filling in. We are thrilled to welcome…
Big Philanthropy is Not America’s Friend
When considering big liberal donors, most people tend to think of George Soros or the Ford Foundation. Forgotten are scores of megadonors that few non-philanthropoids have heard of. Yet these…
Philanthropy in George Packer’s “Four Americas”
For his new Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, George Packer—“the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual,” as aptly described by David Klion—has put together a survey of four different…
Why You Should Still Care About Big Labor’s Disproportionate Clout
Though its power has declined since the 1950s, when it commanded the loyalty—and commandeered the dues payments—of about one-third of the U.S. workforce, Big Labor remains a potent force in…
Supreme Court Rules Against Forced Donor Disclosure—and Intimidating “Cancel Culture”
In February 2020, Capital Research Center (CRC) president Scott Walter testified at an Internal Revenue Service public hearing on a then-proposed regulation that would permanently force nonprofits to disclose their…
Going Postal: How the Left Will Use Vote by Mail to Federalize Elections
Vote by mail is the future of American democracy, with all the accompanying opportunities for ballot harvesting, mail fraud, and deceit—at least if the left has its way. This was…
Left-Wing Groups Flooded Georgia with ‘Dark Money’ and Mail-In Ballots in 2020
If there’s something the left has plenty of, it’s cash. When you add that largesse to liberals’ newfound love of mail-in voting — something even Barack Obama frowned upon as…
Consequences of the PRO (Union Boss) Act
Why are workers worried about a bill that’s supposed to help them? It is because the PRO Act was written by the union bosses, not the workers. It would give…
Can “Woke” Boardroom Culture Be Broken?
Hollywood has been at the vanguard of a new push from corporate America—including sports leagues, retail products and platforms, and even shareholders—to ignore that pithy truth: Adopt political positions and…