UPDATED: Shining a Light on Zuck Bucks in the 2020 Battleground States
Editor’s Note: May 28, 2024: Updated Texas analysis with new data. January 18, 2022: Analysis completed for all states. The latest in a series exposing Mark Zuckerberg’s…
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Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: “Equal Chances” Fallacy
“Social justice” has become all the rage in academia, the mainstream media, and corporate boardrooms across America, spurred on by the violent Black Lives Matter movement and pseudo-thinkers like Robin…
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Racial Fallacies
"They [progresssives] all believe in a big role for government. They believe that elites like themselves should be preempting other people’s decisions through the power of government. They are very…
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Knowledge Fallacies
"They [progresssives] believe that the most consequential knowledge is concentrated in people like themselves. They want to preempt the decisions of other people because they feel that they can make…
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Affirmative Action
"The pandemic, like affirmative action, is another case of third parties setting priorities for other people. Now, it’s good that we tried to save lives during the pandemic. But once…
The Bill Gates and Big Philanthropy Problems—and Ours
Money, including when it comes in the form of big donations, can solve a lot of problems, yes. Most of us would take it, along with the problems. The deceptive,…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
My Exodus from Public Schools
I taught professionally for 15 years, focusing my career on teaching English language learners and those behind in reading. I planned on staying in my tenured position as a public…
Teachers Union Chief Plays Dumb on Reasons for Homeschooling Surge
Randi Weingarten may pretend to not understand why homeschooling has dramatically increased in recent years. But the reasons are clear. During COVID-induced distance learning, parents saw what was in their…
President of Teachers Union Tries to Rewrite History . . . and Fails
A group of education experts testified to the House Committee on Education this year, stating that the school closures during the COVID pandemic were the “biggest domestic policy failure of…