Social Justice Unionism
If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that Big Labor remains a potent force in American culture and politics, even though its power has declined since the 1950s,…
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Arabella’s Long War: “Keep It in the Ground”
For years “dark money” activists ran a coordinated campaign to sabotage and undermine the Trump administration from the offices of Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC. The campaign culminated in the…
Arabella’s Long War: Web of “Pop-Up” Groups
Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC, that quietly runs arguably the most powerful activist and lobbying network in politics. Beginning in 2017, Arabella turned its guns on…
Arabella’s Long War: Anatomy of an Arabella Campaign
From 2017 to 2018, the Western Values Project ran an all-out attack against Trump administration Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, publishing post after post savaging Zinke and his staff.
Arabella’s Long War: Harried Until the End
With Zinke out of the way, the Left’s campaign shifted to halting Trump’s supposed war on public lands until he left office in January 2021. Among President Joe Biden’s first…
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Committee Hearing Debacle
The Ford Foundation gives well over $100 million per year to programs that advance policy and political wins for the Left and Democratic politicians, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently…
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Hard Left Turns
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Dark Roads Through Arabella
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
The Big Labor–Big Green Alliance in One Provision
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…