Articles

Green Watch
Federal Land Withdrawals:
Where Our Account Was Overdrawn
Much the land withdrawn from exploration and mining is in the American Cordillera, the mountain ranges in the western United States and Alaska where mineral deposits of economic significance are…
by Ned Mamula on January 8, 2020

Green Watch
Federal Land Withdrawals:
Can We Ever Correct the Record?
"Have we withdrawn so much land from mineral exploration and development as to seriously affect the long-term mineral position of our country?"…
by Ned Mamula on January 8, 2020

Deception & Misdirection
Taxpayers Share the Burden When Government-Funded Nonprofits Collapse
The Youth Policy Institute's rapid demise demonstrates how nonprofits that become reliant on money from the federal government for their very existence can jeopardize their intended beneficiaries when they collapse,…
by Robert Stilson on January 7, 2020

Dangerous Documentaries
Architects of Woke: Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil
The fifth episode, “Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil,” covers the influence of the late Howard Zinn. Zinn was a historian and far-left political activist best…
by CRC Staff on January 7, 2020

Charity and Welfare
Looking Closely at “Back Row America”: A Review of Chris Arnade’s Dignity
Chris Arnade’s book Dignity does a fine job of meeting—and introducing readers to—America’s poorer class. It fails, however, to ask the right questions about addressing poverty.
by Martin Morse Wooster on January 6, 2020

Deception & Misdirection
ACORN’s Legacy Lives On in the Sixteen Thirty Fund
Documents recently obtained by the Capital Research Center shed more light on the hazy origins of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a mega-lobbying group that Politico has labeled a “massive…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 3, 2020

Podcast
Influence Watch Podcast #103: Three Pillars Supporting the Left
We’re starting off the New Year by taking one last look back at the old year, thanks to the “2019 Philanthropy Awards” published by Inside Philanthropy, a left-of-center news and…
by CRC Staff on January 3, 2020

Philanthropy
Gertrude Himmelfarb’s Appreciation of the Victorian “Age of Philanthropy”
Widely respected historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30 at the age of 97, relied upon her deep and wide knowledge of Victorian England to argue for the reintroduction…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 2, 2020

Labor Watch
How Occupational Licensing Blocks Employees from Entering the Workforce
The fundamental problem with occupational licensing produces is when people with jobs use licensing to keep competitors from entering the market.
by Martin Morse Wooster on December 31, 2019

Featured Items
Featured Video: The Left’s Hatred
The Left presents itself as the side that is anti-hate, standing up for toleration and acceptance across racial, ethnic, religious, and gender identity lines. That is a laudable goal, but…
by CRC Staff on December 30, 2019