Antony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state, who was confirmed on January 26, 2021. Blinken served as deputy secretary of state under Obama from 2015 to 2017 and worked as a…
If Big Tech didn’t know it had run afoul of almost everyone, the latest effort from the progressive-Left wing of American political influencers ought to clear up any confusion. Via…
The Black Panthers were nobody’s idea of responsible gun ownership in 1977. But it didn’t start out that way. In 1967 they were the known as the Black Panther Party…
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, joins Mark Bauerlein the podcast to discuss “dark money” and his First Things article, The Founders of Black Lives Matter, and the…
In early 2019, mega-donors John and Laura Arnold announced they were transforming their philanthropy from a foundation to a for-profit company—in effect forgoing tax benefits in exchange for near-perfect anonymity.
Action NC is a left-leaning nonprofit that is helping President Joseph Biden vaccinate North Carolina. What began as door-to-door outreach and education on the COVID-19 vaccine has turned into a…
Nonprofit “social welfare” organizations are allowed to engage in partisan political campaigning without disclosing their donors under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and the Supreme Court’s decision in…
After the 16th Amendment permitting a federal income tax was ratified in 1913, Congress began defining what could and could not be taxed. The Senate Finance Committee amended a tax…
Section 501(c)(4) of the IRS Code makes a distinction between political speech and social welfare. This and subsequent rulemaking has led to "an 'anything goes' approach to these activities by…
Sunlight and the Center for Public Integrity are just two among many organizations and allied journalists that track and criticize “dark money,” which define as political money whose source isn't…