Voter Suppression Myth: Busted
Following the 2018 primaries in Georgia, rising Democratic star and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams began insisting voter suppression was at fault for her loss to now Governor Brian Kemp…
COVID-19
Commonwealth Fund Prescription for Public Health: More Federal Control
During the COVID-19 pandemic, objectionable acts by public health officials and the social and economic harm caused by restrictions led some states to lift the restrictions before federal public health…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #229: Agency with Ian Rowe
We’ve heard a great deal lately about education in America, from discussions about school choice post-COVID restrictions to whether curriculum is being developed that helps children learn to succeed at…
Louisiana Turns Up the Heat on CTCL and Arabella’s New Venture Fund
Last week, Louisiana’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a lower court’s decision in October 2020 that had thrown out a lawsuit against the Center for Tech and…
Putting Our Cocktail Parties Where Our Mouths Are
Since January 15, 2022, the nation’s capital has required patrons of bars, restaurants, and similar indoor entertainment establishments to show their papers—a vaccination card and photo identification—in order to enter,…
Catharsis Comes for the Education Monopoly
This School Choice Week—which runs through Friday, January 28—many activists are celebrating 2021 as the “year of school choice” and hailing advances that charter schools, private school subsidies, and other…
Which States Did CTCL Flood with “Zuck Bucks”?
As part of CRC’s cutting edge investigation into how Mark Zuckerberg and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) influenced the 2020 election, we’ve mapped out nearly $325 million…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Right after a period in which teachers union officials, most prominently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, conducted a preposterous public relations campaign to make themselves the supposed driving…
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,…
Mark Zuckerberg, CTCL, and 2020 Election Irregularities
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan gave $350 million to a “nonpartisan” nonprofit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which in turn regranted the funds to thousands of governmental election…