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Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #161: What Would H.R. 1 Mean?
H.R. 1: It might be the most consequential piece of legislation before the Congress this year—and that’s saying something in year when Congressional Democrats have already spent $1.9 trillion and…
by Michael Watson on March 19, 2021

Organization Trends
Shining a Light on the Left’s 2020 Shadow Campaign
Kristen Eastlick, senior vice president at Capital Research Center, spoke on a panel at CPAC 2021 discussing the Left's increasing dominance of the nonprofit world, CRC's work on Antifa, and…
by Kristen Eastlick on March 18, 2021

Featured Items
Scott Walter Testifies Before the Arizona Senate
On Monday, March 15, 2021, Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, testified (virtually) before the Committee on Government of the Arizona on private funding of the 2020 Arizona…
by Scott Walter on March 18, 2021

Green Watch
The Left’s War on Coal: Why Coal Matters
“Go green”—and go broke. President Biden is in the White House and radical environmentalists are in the driver’s seat, with global warming taking a central role in every department and…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021

Green Watch
The Left’s War on Coal: The Hawaiian Model
In 2017, Hawaii’s biggest utility provider announced it was shutting down AES Hawaii on Oahu, the state’s last coal-fired plant, in order to replace it with renewables in 2022, part…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021

Green Watch
The Left’s War on Coal: Global Warming Is Great for Business
Two decades after the Enron collapse, the parallels between cronyism and activism are striking. Far from their traditional role as the bogeymen of the eco-Left, Big Oil and Gas are…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021

Green Watch
The Left’s War on Coal: “Green” Activism Inc.
The environmental Left doesn’t merely want to replace coal; it hates it. Far-left Greenpeace believes that “ending our addiction to coal should be non-negotiable.” Coal survived the Obama years, but…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 17, 2021

Green Watch
Ken Braun Talks Hollywood Leftism with Bill Meyer
On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, Ken Braun talked with Bill Meyer on The Bill Meyer Show about his four-part series on how eBay founder Jeffrey is using Participant Media to…
by Ken Braun on March 16, 2021

Labor Watch
“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
by Michael Watson on March 16, 2021

Book Profile, Philanthropy
Ken Dayton on Good Nonprofit-Board Governance
John Tuso’s new book recalls his advice succinctly: simply support and supervise management. CEOs shouldn’t surrender, and boards shouldn’t usurp, power. In the nonprofit context particularly, directors should also be…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 15, 2021