Busting the Myth of Conservative ‘Dark Money’
Here’s a popular myth: Rich people are all conservative, so conservatives have more money to affect politics than liberals, because the left, which cares about the poor, doesn’t have the…
Commentary
Left-Wing Billionaires Turn to For-Profit Corporations for Giving
Liberal billionaire donors are exploiting a new way of funneling millions of dollars to left-wing political groups. In 2015, Facebook founder and Democratic donor Mark Zuckerberg set up a limited…
Left-Wing Activist Sets Himself Up to Profit from His Own Climate Plan
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat global warming. As CEO of Urban Ingenuity, consulting firm that…
Biden Transition Illustrates the Need for Foreign-Funding Transparency
The Capital Research Center has begun tracking these appointments to make learning about and analyzing exactly who is involved in the budding Biden presidency an easier and more transparent task. One of…
What Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Election Money Doing in Georgia?
Imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor’s preferred party, and counties receiving “help” were disproportionately ones…
Ice Cube Backlash Reveals Liberal Hypocrisy on Race
Ice Cube worked with President Donald Trump to secure a near half-a-trillion dollar commitment to increase capital in black communities, only to be quickly criticized for working with a “fascist,”…
The Mayflower Compact
On this Thanksgiving Day, I express thanks to the Pilgrims who braved the Atlantic Ocean to come to the New World to worship God as their consciences dictated. While my…
Backdoor Foreign Influence Schemes Should Continue to Be a Presidential Priority
In October, a State Department issued a succinct press release that expressed the administration’s concern over foreign funding in the U.S. nonprofit world, “the academic community, think tanks, and various…
Sheldon Whitehouse’s Hypocrisy on Liberal “Dark Money” Isn’t Fooling Anyone
For Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the Democrats’ leading hawk for donor disclosure, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett were an excuse to subject the nation to…
Inside the Left’s Web of “Dark Money”
The fight over Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court is only the beginning of judicial battles to come. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and others who pretend that “dark…