“Greens” Scream Louder as the World Gets Better
To listen to die-hard environmentalists, you would think the planet is a pot about to boil, humanity is dangerously close to starvation, and everything can be saved by swapping out…
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Fiscal Sponsorship, the Left, and Beginning to Explore Reform
Most people have never heard of one of the Left’s potent weapons—“fiscal sponsorship”—yet it’s the secret to the legion of liberal activist groups flooding American politics today.
Jennifer Bird-Pollan’s Examination of Tax on University Endowments has Implications for Philanthropy
University of Kentucky law professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan’s in-depth examination of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017’s first-time excise tax on the investment income of certain college and university endowments in the Pepperdine…
Nonprofits in the Biden Administration: Arabella Advisors and Democracy Alliance
The Capital Research Center (CRC) has long tracked the influence of two of the most important funding networks on the Left: the four nonprofits managed by the philanthropic consulting firm…
The Left’s “Secret Science”: Winning Ugly
"The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns" by journalist Sasha Issenberg describes the evolution of voter microtargeting and behavioral science research tactics, and the arms race between high-level…
The Left’s “Secret Science”: Victory on the Margins
As pure entertainment, Victory Lab is a well written and fascinating history of the get-out-the-vote (GOTV) and messaging innovations developed by partisan Democrats, partisan Republicans, and academic researchers. On a…
The Left’s “Secret Science”: Breaking the Law?
During the Obama administration the IRS discriminated against right-of-center organizations, such as local Tea Party groups, that were seeking nonprofit status. During a 27-month stretch, according to USA Today, “perhaps…
The Left’s “Secret Science”: The Mystery of the Rio Grande
Even as Victory Lab portrays the advantage that sketchy partisan turnout machines operating as nonpartisan nonprofits might give to the Democratic Left, the book is not a relentless ride into…
Richard T. Ely, Actually Non-eerily, Lives
Hillsdale College graduate dean and professor of politics Ronald J. Pestritto’s new America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism, from Encounter Books, explicitly aims “to demonstrate how an understanding of…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #179: Social Justice Unionism
CRC’s Communications Director Sarah Lee interviews CRC’s Research Director Mike Watson on the 4-part series he penned for Capital Research on Social Justice Unionism. Broadly defined, Social Justice Unionism is…