Elon Musk’s Philanthropy Is Still Big Philanthropy
Boy-genius Elon Musk—of SpaceX, Tesla, and $5.7 billion in charitable gifts no one’s yet seen distributed—nearly broke the internet this week when first he became the largest single shareholder of…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #208: Blackrock Loves China
Most Americans have heard the term “woke,” and many have heard it attached to businesses. But what American consumers may not know is that there’s a man behind the “woke…
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Promises More Wind and Solar—Hope You Like Buying Chinese
Count China among the biggest winners if the gargantuan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, if it passes Congress. The bill would allocate $148 billion to climate- and energy-related priorities intended to…
Foreign Money for Election Outcomes
Legislators and analysts interested in how nonprofit funding has shifted the political debate in the United States ought to also pay attention to another funding apparatus. This apparatus appears to…
Four Ways The Left Uses Hollywood to Push Its Agenda
Hollywood flies further left every year, and you don't have to sit through a lame awards show to see it. See the four ways Hollywood tries to indoctrinate us, and…
Best of CRC Media Hits for June 2021
Congress is out of session for a bit and Washington, DC is quieter and less busy – but there’s still an edge; a white-noise rumbling that fills the air that…
Can “Woke” Boardroom Culture Be Broken?
Hollywood has been at the vanguard of a new push from corporate America—including sports leagues, retail products and platforms, and even shareholders—to ignore that pithy truth: Adopt political positions and…
Keeping a Finger on Foreign Funding in Academia
An encouraging development on Capitol Hill came Thursday when two House Republicans wrote a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking for a status update on Section 117 of…
China’s Propaganda War and How to Stop It
When President Richard Nixon took a chance on normalizing relations with China in 1972 after a quarter century of diplomatic freeze, China to most Americans was just a Third World…
The Totalitarian Undertow of Social Distancing
Social distancing, mask mandates, and lockdowns have put civil society on ice. Church congregations either do not meet, “meet” in socially distancing congregations, or try to fellowship over video conferencing.