Just in time for the midterm elections, David Brock, a longtime Democratic activist and Hillary Clinton crony, has launched a news media company based in Washington, DC, that masquerades as…
MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has made a tremendous effort to give away her wealth in record time, and she ought to be commended for it. As…
Private money in politics flows through three main rivers: money given directly to candidates ($5 billion); soft money, sometimes called "dark money" ($133 million); and charitable giving to public policy…
Plastic packaging is a conservation miracle that preserves food from spoilage at trivial cost and saves enormous resources compared to aluminum, paper, and other options. Using abundant, low-cost plastic means…
The EMF’s “funding model” is anchored in partnerships with major corporations, including many of the world’s most recognizable plastic users. This appears to fit the definition of "greenwashing," which "is…
Even accepting for the sake of argument the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s alarmist and dubious premise that there is a “plastic pollution crisis,” it's focus on eliminating polystyrene is odd given…
In addition to modern fertilizers and high-yield agriculture (two other modern miracles the reliably risible Ellen MacArthur Foundation recommends moving away from), billions in the wealthy world owe our low-cost,…
Today, we meet ERIC—the Electronic Registration Information Center. Created with the aid of the left-of-center Pew Charitable Trusts to help states maintain their voter rolls, recent years have seen it…
Ken Braun talks about the Steele Dossier and the FBI on the Schiffer Report in light of recent revelations from the trial of Igor Danchenko, a primary researcher for the…