In much of the country, the cops can take your stuff even if they aren’t able to convict you of a crime through a process known as civil asset forfeiture.
It’s the biggest story of the week in Washington. Following a nearly unprecedented breach of the Supreme Court’s institutional security, Politico published a draft of a possible majority opinion written…
“Governing for Impact.” Behind that innocuous name is a powerful yet secretive interest group backed by liberal billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations network that…
Local news: It’s in decline, but people trust it more than national news by all accounts. And this creates an opening for big national organizations to get into the local…
This week, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index measure of inflation had surged to 8.5 percent year-on-year. Accelerating inflation and surging gas prices have…
Editor’s Note: Between recording and publication, Twitter announced that Musk would not be joining the Twitter board of directors. Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast.
We’ve discussed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on the show before—it’s a laundry list of bad ideas pushed by Big Labor and its allies in Congress that would…
Last week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questioning and speechifying from members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as it considered her nomination for the seat on the U.S. Supreme…
Two years ago this week, the federal government announced “two weeks to slow the spread” — a campaign of lockdowns and closures that would metastasize into ongoing restrictions on civil…
In 2020, as the coronavirus hit and governments ordered mass lockdowns of length and scope unprecedented in American history, Congress passed the “Paycheck Protection Program” or PPP to help small…