Center for American Progress

Organization Trends
Nonprofits in the Biden Administration: Think Tanks
The Biden Administration has drawn heavily from the world of nonprofit think tanks—an organizational category with an admittedly imprecise definition. Such groups were a common landing place for Obama Administration…
by Robert Stilson on June 23, 2021

Green Watch, Organization Trends
The Biden-Harris Transition: Labor, Justice, Education, and EPA
Following the 2020 election, President-elect Joe Biden has been releasing the names of those he intends to nominate to senior executive branch posts, as well as those who are serving…
by Robert Stilson on January 11, 2021

Commentary, Green Watch
Left-Wing Activist Sets Himself Up to Profit from His Own Climate Plan
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat global warming. As CEO of Urban Ingenuity, consulting firm that…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 22, 2020

Organization Trends
Insuring Crony Capitalism
(PDF here) Summary:  Obamacare was originally passed into law with the help of payoffs to industries in health care.  Now the law’s machinery encourages each part of the medical…
by David Hogberg on January 30, 2016

Organization Trends
Faith in Statism
(PDF here) On June 26, the Supreme Court by 5 to 4 struck down all state-level bans on same-sex marriage. Since then, a poll found that 19…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on August 3, 2015

Foundation Watch
De-Imagining America
  (PDF here) Imagining America is a creature of radical foundations and the Clinton administration. Both activist group and grant-maker, the Syracuse University-based…
by Matthew Vadum on May 1, 2014

Foundation Watch
Building a Radical Foundation
(PDF here) Although the Glaser Progress Foundation was made possible by the great wealth its benefactor garnered from a mere decade’s work at Microsoft, it aims to change the…
by Matthew Vadum on March 4, 2014

Foundation Watch
George Soros-funded Center for American Progress leads the Left’s attack on your gun rights
The Center for American Progress, which is more or less the Democratic Party’s public relations firm, is launching a fresh assault on the Second Amendment in light of the…
by Matthew Vadum on July 23, 2012

Organization Trends
Rallying the Catholic Left
(PDF) The 2012 race for the White House may depend heavily on the Catholic vote.  Catholics significantly contributed to President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, but neither Democrats nor…
by Patrick J. Reilly on July 4, 2012

Foundation Watch
George Soros’s Democracy Alliance plans to drown Democrats in an ocean of money this election cycle
I have an op-ed in today’s Washington Times. It begins George Soros’ Democracy Alliance, an invitation-only club for billionaire leftist political donors, has decided to drown Democrats and…
by Matthew Vadum on April 6, 2012