The SAVE Act and manufactured panic over married women
The question is not whether married women can vote. The question is: why is a powerful nonprofit network so invested in convincing the country that they cannot?…
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Profits and nonprofits: the odd evolution of OpenAI
ChatGPT’s creator wasn’t originally a conventional tech firm, but rather a tax-exempt nonprofit charity promoting artificial general intelligence. Today, the business structure is so complicated you’ll need actual intelligence to…
Sanctuary showdown: grants from taxpayers and foundations fuel Illinois’ resistance to ICE
A look at the donors (and sometimes even tax dollars) funding the mischief making against federal law enforcement in Chicago.
How homeless advocacy became the plaything of reckless radicals
The NGOs in the homeless industrial complex are spending money—and often a lot of tax dollars—on everything but obvious solutions.
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Teachers Unions Are Suing over Trump’s DEI Reversal—And They Might Win
The Trump administration ordered federally funded schools and universities to shut down DEI programs or risk losing funding. If the Trump administration follows through on this threat, it will be a…
Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Deinstitutionalization of the Psychiatrically Vulnerable
As it is usually told, the fascinating story of how America came to embrace its now approximately half-century-long experiment in deinstitutionalizing psychiatrically vulnerable populations boils down to a set of…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
BEST OF 2024
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America: Megaphones and Militancy
The Ford Foundation is filled with money earned a century ago by Henry Ford in gritty Dearborn, Michigan. But neither the family nor the automaker control it anymore. Decades ago,…
The New Left’s Total Victory in 2024
The New Left was still pretty “new” at the annual convention of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in June 1969. A direct ideological/historical line connects that long ago…