Center for American Progress (CAP)

Organization Trends
Civil Asset Forfeiture Makes for Strange Bedfellows
In 2020, the Capital Research Center (CRC) examined civil asset forfeiture and noted how criticism of the practice had brought together a rather improbable ideological coalition. As efforts to reform…
by Robert Stilson on February 2, 2023

Organization Trends
How the Soft-on-Crime Sausage Gets Made
In October 2022, the Ronald Brownstein of The Atlantic wrote an impassioned defense of the left-wing progressive criminal justice reform movement, claiming there is no clear connection between rising crime…
by Parker Thayer on January 30, 2023

Labor Watch
Unions Are Allies of Wokeness, Not Conservative Employees
Conservative workers have no reason to trust organized labor as it exists. Labor unions’ political committees support Democratic candidates by ratios of nine to one over Republicans. Labor unions are…
by Michael Watson on December 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 1
Arabella Advisors is one of the Left’s top consultancies to foundations and mega-donors who want to make grants to “mission-driven” nonprofits. Its killer app is the Arabella network: a set…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 12, 2022

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Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 2
In an internal memo, Arabella and New Venture Fund makes little distinction between Arabella and its nonprofit "client"—evidence that the network internally refers to itself as “Arabella” instead of making…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 12, 2022

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Left-Wing Billionaire Donald Sussman
It is unclear whether Donald Sussman is technically a billionaire since so much of his wealth is hidden, but his billionaire-sized contributions and connections to Democratic political candidates undoubtedly earn…
by Parker Thayer on September 29, 2022

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The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: The Emerging Democratic Majority
In 2002, liberal scholars John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a provocative thesis: A new Democratic majority would “emerge” by the end of the decade. Traditional middle-class and working-class Democrats…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

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The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: A Prescription or a Prophecy?
The Emerging Democratic Majority is a book of two halves; a description of electoral trends that Judis and Teixeira argue favor the Democrats and a prescription for Democrats to adopt…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

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The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: From McConnell to Trump
Sean Trende speculated that a Republican Party advancing the alternate approach “would have to be more ‘America first’ on trade, immigration and foreign policy; less pro–Wall Street and big business…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

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The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: Teixeira Exiled
The Democratic response to the Trump administration accelerated the burial of progressive centrism. The professional class hardened in its Democratic alignment as “wokeness”—the mix of Robin DiAngelo- and Ibram X.
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022