Opening the Books on Government-Funded Arts
Adding to its history of questionable federal grantmaking, the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (NFA-H) is once again under scrutiny for its usage of funds. The NFA-H, comprised…
Organization Trends
Featured Op-Ed: A Failed Takeover By The Left
This op-ed originally appeared in the Daily Caller on July 6, 2017 Ever noticed how many “mainstream” and “neutral” institutions end up with a left-of-center bias? The media and government-run schools…
Center for Media and Democracy: The Radical Left’s Agenda-Driven “Watchdog”
Summary: Born from the fever swamps of the Bush-era anti-war Left, the Center for Media and Democracy spreads conspiratorial propaganda about conservative donors and organizations. But this organization’s record is…
Taking Back America the Constitutional Way
Summary: The Convention of States Project aims to curb the powers of the long out-of-control federal government by pursuing a state-initiated convention to amend the Constitution. No such convention has…
Hair-Trigger Alerts: How the Misnamed Union of Concerned Scientists Undermines National Security
Summary: Founded at the end of the radical 1960s, the well-funded Union of Concerned Scientists has consistently tried to undermine U.S. national security by twisting scholarship to suit its left-wing…
DISHONEST FACT-CHECKERS: How fact-checkers trivialize lies by politicians and undermine truth-seeking
Summary: Both of the nation’s most prominent fact-checking organizations—FactCheck.org and PolitiFact—tilt to the political left, which makes them representative of the majority of journalists who also lean to port. Both…
Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety Chauffeurs for the Trial Bar?
Summary: You may not have heard of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (CARS), or know about its connections with the trial lawyer lobby. But once you hear how CARS’…
The “Trump Effect”
Summary: The serial fabulists and exaggerators of the Southern Poverty Law Center are determined to portray Donald Trump and his supporters as cancers on the body politic. The…
Citizen Engagement Laboratory
Summary: Citizen Engagement Laboratory is a well-funded beehive of progressive advocacy that uses foundation money to fight for left-progressive causes. It is also an incubator of nascent left-wing groups that…
Keeping Up with CAIR’s Islamic Radicalism
This article is part of the Organization Trends series. By Andrew E. Harrod Summary: The terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claims to be America’s largest civil rights organization for…