InfluenceWatch Podcast #177: Teachers Unions Running Wild
Our regular podcast host, CRC’s Research Director Mike Watson, is on vacation so CRC’s Director of Communications and External Relations Sarah Lee is filling in. We are thrilled to welcome…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #176: Ranked Choice Voting in NYC
What do pizza toppings, test data, and waiting have to do with becoming mayor of New York City? Thanks to the city’s new, confusing, and poorly administered “ranked choice voting”…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #175: Orwellian Fact-Checkers
In this episode: It’s a name worthy of Orwell: The “Committee on Information Disorder,” a project of the posh and well-connected Aspen Institute designed to identify “disinformation” for Big Corporations…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #174: The History of Big Tech Censorship
Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast. “Big Tech”—the major social media and online communications companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—FAANG, for short. Especially since…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #173: The State of Redistricting
In this episode, our regular podcast host, CRC Research Director Mike Watson, joins CRC Director of Communications and External Relations Sarah Lee discuss his latest report on redistricting, a four-part…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #172: Using the Courts to Push Unpopular Policy
Radical environmentalists have a problem: Their policies are unpopular, and even a unified Democratic government aligned with them can only advance so many restrictions on personal choice, industrial activity, and…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #170: Pennsylvania’s “Zuck-Bucks”
In this episode: When people think “political billionaire,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not the one who usually comes to mind. But after the 2020 elections, maybe he should. The…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #169: A Democrat Takeover of Election Law?
In this Congress, bad ideas don’t die—they get marked up by the Senate Rules Committee. And this week it was the turn of S. 1, the Senate companion to H.R.
InfluenceWatch Podcast #168: The CDC and Lockdown Collusion
In this episode: The hard lockdownists and their allies in the Biden administration repeat the mantra as often as a chanting monk: “Follow the science,” invariably before proposing some policy…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #167: Understanding China’s University Influence
This week, CRC’s Communications and External Relations Director Sarah Lee interviews National Association of Scholars Senior Research Fellow Rachelle Peterson about her work related to the Confucius Institutes, ostensible Chinese…