InfluenceWatch Podcast #365: Bulwark Backstory
At one point, in the minds of its writers and supporters, perhaps The Bulwark really was about providing a “bulwark” for “conserving conservatism” in opposition to the right-populism of once…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #364: Bullies Unite Here
In an era when fewer than six percent of private-sector workers are union members, it’s easy to forget how forceful Big Labor’s activists can be when they’re out rooting for…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #363: InfluenceWatch for Education
Starting this week, we will be releasing the InfluenceWatch Podcast on Tuesday mornings. For over seven years, InfluenceWatch.org has served the interested public as a resource on the groups…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #362: Big Tech On Trial
It’s 2025 in America, but news reports of antitrust lawsuits which, if successful, could potentially lead to at least a partial breakup of some of the biggest tech companies in…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #361: Justice for Greenpeace
It can seem infuriating: Leftist demonstrators wantonly violate the law, only to face no or negligible consequences because the powers that be either support or refuse to oppose their disruptive…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #359: Stacey Abrams and the New Georgia Scandal
While we at Capital Research Center may not have a favorite Internal Revenue Service regulation, we do find one to be particularly relevant to our work on nonprofits in the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #358: Sixty Billion Foreign Dollars Go to College
Sixty billion dollars—that is the estimate of foreign funding of American universities that Americans for Public Trust released earlier this week. Of that $60 billion, $20 billion went to just…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #357: Partisan Voter Registration
To quote our colleague and guest for the week, Parker Thayer, the nonprofit voter registration industry “might not sound like a particularly exciting or important topic, and in an ideal…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #356: L’Affaire Murphy and Leftist Local News
We try not to wade into the more salacious soap opera stories that quite frankly infest the D.C. political world. But when a story intersects with work we do, well,…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #355: Government-Enabled Drug Abuse
Addiction breaks lives, breaks families, and on a mass scale can break societies, but breaking an addiction is quite difficult. There are two main schools of thought for how to…