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George Soros: A Lifetime Fortune Spent on Liberal Influence
This week, billionaire financier George Soros celebrates his 90th birthday. That’s a big number, but it’s dwarfed by another Soros number: 708 million. That’s the cash his two principal foundations…
by Scott Walter on August 19, 2020

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The Walmart Foundation, a Microcosm of Woke Capital
Why are major corporations supporting left-wing causes? Where did the class-focused Left go, which pit Labor against Capital rather than merely demand that Capital’s slogans match theirs? Tracking the philanthropic…
by Shane Devine on August 14, 2020

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CRC Research on George Soros and the Open Society Foundations
Today is billionaire George Soros’s 90th birthday. By any measure, he has lived a remarkable life, having survived the successive Nazi and Soviet occupations of Hungary and eventually earning his…
by Jon Rodeback on August 12, 2020

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Mapping the Open Society Network on Soros’s 90th Birthday
George Soros turns 90 today, yet infamous as he is, few conservatives really understand the extent of the liberal billionaire’s vast nonprofit empire. Each group in the Soros Network is…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 12, 2020

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Tides Is the Tip of the Anti-Police Spear
To discover who is leading—and financing—the war on America’s police, look no further than the Tides Center. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation—a the leading group in the radical, Marxist-led…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 29, 2020

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Terror of the Unborn: Billions for Millions of Abortions
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation is possibly the biggest anti-people funder on the planet. For decades, the Buffett Foundation—supported by business magnate Warren and named for his late wife—has poured…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2020

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Terror of the Unborn: A Quiet Malthusian
Unlike his business partner, Buffett himself hardly speaks publicly about abortion, perhaps (as some have speculated) out of concern that it would damage his investments and public image. “Certainly I…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2020

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Terror of the Unborn: Funding At-Home Abortions
Even acting alone, the Buffett Foundation is the unrivalled terror of the unborn. In the early 2000s it bankrolled efforts to legalize the abortifacient mifepristone (also called RU-486 or Mifeprex)…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2020

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Terror of the Unborn: Funding Arabella Advisors’ Activism
In 2018 the Buffett Foundation was the single biggest donor to the Hopewell Fund—the abortion arm of the $635 million “dark money” empire run by Arabella Advisors. CRC exposed Arabella…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2020

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Cats and Mice, Donors and Their Foundations
Specifically, Brian Galle finds that a philanthropic foundation’s “overhead, or the ratio of administrative expenses to grants made, jumps by about 12% as soon as the organization’s last living donor…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 1, 2020