Enel’s home page doesn’t show pictures or even references to natural gas wellheads, coal mines, hydro dams, or nuclear fuel rods that produce the overwhelming majority of its electricity. Yet…
Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants remain necessary as backups for the frequent occasions when the wind and sun—like a flaky employee—won’t work. The more unreliability that is added…
In 2021, the Cabin Road Foundation, a virtually unknown private foundation, briefly became a leading 501(c)(3) funder of two of the country’s most well-known environmental direct-action groups. The foundation's grantmaking…
If transparency amounted to anything more than a self-serving platitude to America’s professional philanthropic class, the newly released National Study on Donor Advised Funds would make plain that this is…
California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
In 2022, Patagonia outdoors-wear brand owner and self-described socialist Yvon Chouinard and his family transferred ownership of the company to Holdfast Collective, an LLC that controls 98 percent of the…
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Jeffrey E. Paul’s fine Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It, new from Encounter Books, begins by tracing the harmful…
Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to writing big checks for politically charged philanthropy after the $400 million he distributed to local election offices for the 2020 election through two nonprofits.
Some community foundations have been using a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Horizon Forum to screen grant recipients. This is problematic because SPLC…