Sometime in the early 1980s another mysterious twist of entrepreneurial fate placed Sharpton in a room discussing whether or not he would be purchasing cocaine for an unnamed acquaintance. A…
Whatever his associations may or may not have been with shady businesses, the National Action Network (NAN) is Sharpton’s supposedly legitimate enterprise. It’s the civil rights organization that commanded respect…
The Capital Research Center, America’s investigative think tank, is gearing up for our spot in the biggest conservative conference of the year. CPAC 2019 will be held from February 28th…
You know the Green New Deal (GND) is a dud when even liberal icon Howard Schultz calls it “unrealistic” and “immoral.” The radical proposal pushed by democratic socialist Alexandria…
In this episode: a well-connected liberal propaganda blog makes a hash of a hit job against a conservative philanthropic officer, teachers unions strike to preserve their education monopoly, and libertarians…
If you’ve ever been solicited on the street by clipboard-wielding activists asking you to donate to or support a group like the Southern Poverty Law Center, Greenpeace, or the Human…
The oldest and perhaps best-known part of the Public Interest Network are the Public Interest Research Groups, or “PIRGs.” The PIRGs grew out of the student activism of the 1960s…
While the PIRGs form the backbone of the Public Interest Network’s lobbying efforts, much of its canvassing is directed by the lesser-known Fund for the Public Interest (or “the Fund.”)…
While the size of the Public Interest Network gives the impression of containing dozens of sprawling, organic advocacy organizations located in nearly every state, PIN is really controlled by offices…
While we’ve examined many of the nonprofits in the Public Interest Network, we turn to the groups which provide the rest of its professional activist services. While the Fund for…