Drive Clean Indiana: Archetype of the Populist “NGO”
Drive Clean Indiana (DCI) is a smallish nonprofit that touts itself as a champion of green transportation. As a member of the Clean Cities Coalition (a Department of Energy grant…
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
The Letter, a COVID-Era Public Health Infamy
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an open letter signed by 1,288 alleged “public health professionals" promoted differential treatment of left-wing BLM protests and right-wing anti-lockdown protests. The defenses of that letter…
Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024, she called for…
The Department of Education Dismantled: What’s Next?
On March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered his staff to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.” As expected, the legacy media is…
Enhancing USAspending
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has brought unprecedented public attention to federal grantmaking and contracting, which in turn has led many Americans to the government’s online database for federal…
Capital Research, February/March 2025
In the February/March 2025 issue of Capital Research magazine, read about what should be cut and kept in the U.S. Department of Education, many highly questionable grants to “charities” from…
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.
DOGE and the Department of Defense
While there are doubtless major opportunities to improve efficiency at the Department of Defense, relatively few of them would seem to involve grants to nonprofits. Still, DOGE should examine it…
DOGE and HHS: Harm Reduction
Nobody should pretend that there is some simple, easy solution to the country’s drug crisis. If there were, discussions about harm reduction wouldn’t even be on the table. In the…
Dozens of Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration:
General Challenges to DOGE
State of New Mexico v. Musk is just one of dozens of lawsuits on multiple issues that were filed against the Trump administration during its first month in office. Many…