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Philanthropy
A Conversation With Second Rough Draft’s Richard J. Tofel (Part 2 of 2)
After getting bachelor’s, law, and master’s degrees from Harvard, Richard J. Tofel began an interestingly varied career by first practicing law in 1983. He has since also been assistant publisher…
Michael E. Hartmann

Philanthropy
Big Philanthropy to the Rescue? Think Again.
As the media and elites across America take up a fight to “save democracy,” Big Philanthropy is casting itself in the role of superhero. Since 2011, the University of Pennsylvania’s…
Jeffrey Cain

Organization Trends
The Institutional Revolution at National Public Radio
Last week, longtime National Public Radio editor Uri Berliner wrote an op-ed on his recent experiences at NPR, tracing its ideological transformation from left-leaning to vanguardist woke-progressive. While Berliner pointed…
Michael Watson

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Annual Reports Show Its Ties to the Left
Fresh annual reports for 2023 conclusively demonstrate the institutional connections between Big Labor and the rest of the Left. But these annual reports just skim the surface of the deep…
Michael Watson

Book Profile
Philanthropy in (as Self-Defined, a “Transformative”) Solidarity
The most-insightful critiques of progressive technocratic centralism come from those to its further left. In 2003, for example, Harvard sociologist and political scientist Theda Skocpol pointedly argued in her Diminished…
Michael E. Hartmann

Book Profile
The Kingmaker of the Left: Arabella Advisors
"If you’re trying to understand American politics and the Left, it is much more important to look at who heads Arabella Advisors, or the Ford Foundation, than it is to…
Sarah Lee

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #310: Big Labor Then, Now, and in the Future
Have you ever wondered how and why Big Labor became such a driving force in American politics, and how it’s come to be associated with the American left and the…
Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson

Deception & Misdirection
Newsguard’s Non-Nutritious News Ratings and CAP’s Russiagate Fables
Newsguard Technologies is in the business of rating the news, particularly assigning “nutrition label” that supposedly rates the reliability of online news and information websites. But Newsguard nutrition labels are…
Ken Braun

Testimony
Written Testimony About “Dark Money” in Environmental Debates
Written testimony submitted to the Senate Budget Committee for the hearing on “Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs.”…
Scott Walter

Organization Trends
The Election Trust Initiative
Millions of voters began to distrust elections in 2020 (in part) because left-leaning nonprofits were so involved in the process. From voter registration to get-out-the-vote mailers to election administration and…
Parker Thayer