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Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Three Axes, Two Buckets, and One Approach
There is a bizarre tendency of left-of-center causes to be promoted as a block even when they directly contradict each other. Some critics of institutional progressivism call this tendency “The…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Everything Leftism’s Rise
Everything Leftism is less a policy manifesto than a radical approach to issue analysis. It surged during the “Great Awokening” after the 2016 election and was given a nitrous-oxide boost…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Revealed by Hamas
Everything Leftism as an ideology jumped out of the political background and into the forefront after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. Almost immediately after the attacks, radical-left…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: The People of Everything Leftism
The average liberal voter is not necessarily an Everything Leftist. Due to social pressure among liberals to profess Everything Leftism, it is impossible to know what proportion of the Democratic…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Special Report
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Cross-Pressures
Everything Leftism is a powerful force. It defines the praxis of one of the two great ideological coalitions that define 21st-century American politics and policy. But it is not all-powerful,…
by Michael Watson on July 16, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: The Nutrition Label
According to its vision statement, NewsGuard Technologies provides “transparent tools to counter misinformation for readers, brands and democracies.” But while the firm portrays itself as Captain America resisting the enemies…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Vitamin Deficient Nutrition
Almost all the big regime media blue bloods, such as the Washington Post, ace the test for NewsGuard's nutrition label. But the system is cooked against everyone else. Even the…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: History-Making Hoaxes
The combined margin of victory for President Biden in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District was just over 65,000 votes. If not for NewsGuard’s 100 percent “pure nutrition”…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Disclosure
Even absent official government support, NewsGuard nutrition labels should not be trusted to educate schoolchildren or anyone else on healthy news consumption. It’s biased to steer news consumers toward sources…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #320: Dr. Fauci and the Freedom of Information
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on June 7, 2024