Back to School: A guide for parents in today’s public schools
Does your public school exist to teach the skills and values you want your kids to learn, or the political values of particular teachers and Big Labor bosses?…
Everything Leftism
InfluenceWatch Podcast #373: Everything Leftism and the Antisemitic Teachers Unions
Back in the 1960s, the teachers’ unions, especially the United Federation of Teachers in New York, had a reputation for being strongly Jewish. But today, the teachers unions—especially the National…
The Big Five Gun Control Groups: March for Our Lives
Of all the major gun control advocacy groups in the United States, March for Our Lives has gone the furthest in embracing an intersectional “Everything Leftist” approach to its activism.
Republicans and the Teamsters, a Bad Relationship
If Republican leaders follow the American Compass into the arms of the Teamsters union, they will be repeating an error of their predecessors from the Eisenhower era. They would do…
Disunited Steelworkers and the U.S. Steel Deal
Before Americans broke for the Memorial Day weekend, President Donald Trump announced that he would allow a proposed investment by Japan-based Nippon Steel into the struggling company U.S. Steel that…
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…
Meet Another Batch of Big Philanthropy–Funded Leftist Loons: The “Health Policy Research Scholars”
The quietly radical Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a Health Policy Research Scholars program that provides doctoral students interested in health policy with annual grants up to $30,000 over the…
The Union and the Republican Prize Patrol
The fall of the Prize Patrol from New York State government and the more recent fall of Rivera’s successor George Gresham from the top of 1199SEIU’s greasy pole provides a…
Big ESG’s Big Partner: Big Labor
“Big Labor is Everything Leftism and Everything Leftism is Big Labor.” ESG is no exception, and the Proxy Preview 2025 reveals the extent to which Big Labor is entwined in…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: “Big” Labor in 1990
The 1990s saw a shift in the leadership of organized labor. Out went Lane Kirkland, the social democratic Cold Warrior head of the AFL-CIO since 1979, and his backers in…