Kavanaugh Accuser Max Stier’s Big-Government Advocacy Group
A man named Max Stier recently entered the news cycle after the New York Times reported that he claims to have witnessed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh involve himself in…
Deception & Misdirection
NBC News Fails CRC Fact Check: The Epoch Times Is No Pro-Trump Dark Money Operation
This past August, NBC News ran a series of articles attacking the Epoch Times, a right-leaning newspaper founded by anti-Communist Chinese expatriates which has rapidly risen in popularity…
Don’t Forget the Shadowy Special Interests Behind Net Neutrality
It’s been two years since the Trump administration buried net neutrality in the ground. Now it has a headstone. On October 1st, a federal appeals court judge ruled in…
The SAGE Fund: A Black Box Funder
Sometimes funders aren’t what they seem. Say you’re working to tackle human rights violations in developing countries. Activists need friends with deep pockets, so you turn to a likely ally:…
The College Decision Needs Stronger Price Signals
Last week, I compared the risk of a college football bet against the odds of an “investment” in a college degree paying off. Multiplying the following data points together…
Phony “Pop-Up” Group: Don’t Listen to Others’ Fake Comments
Allied Progress wants you to know how outrageous copy-and-paste comments submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) really are. According to the group, nearly a quarter of the…
Blue Hawaii Gov Vetos Asset Forfeiture Reform
On July 9, 2019, Hawaii Governor David Ige (D) vetoed House Bill 748, which would have protected his citizens from a type of police abuse that rarely makes headlines:…
Wikipedia’s Birthday Gift to American Communism
Wikipedia (according to Wikipedia) has “500 million unique visitors per month” and is the “largest and most popular general reference work” on the internet. Facebook and YouTube rely on…
Understand Media Bias with Facts
“The Kansas City Star’s editorial board is just like all the radical left. If you disagree with them, you are a racist.” This is a published letter to the editor…
The Etymology of “Dark Money”
A decade ago, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation was looking for a short phrase to put before the following fact: “Of the 202 outside organizations spending money to…