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Scott Walter Talks About Arabella with Bill Meyer
The Arabella network itself might be relatively unknown to many, but the amount of influence it peddles is vast particularly towards funding left-wing policies and Democrat political activities. Through its…
by Scott Walter on April 24, 2024

Philanthropy
The Media Are Offside on Seid
Barre Seid’s bold contribution of $1.6 billion to the Marble Trust has set off a firestorm of condemnation and has engendered urgent calls for “reform” by the cognoscenti on the…
by Craig Kennedy on September 13, 2022

Organization Trends
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Media State of Play
In early 2019, we surveyed the media landscape with a focus on the role of liberal-backed but nominally nonpartisan not-for-profit news outlets like ProPublica and Center for Public Integrity, which…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Liberal Cancellation Movements
As the for-profit right-of-center media are embroiled in turmoil, left-wing activists in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are seeking to de-platform the right-of-center networks and to silence right-of-center reporting.
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: The 1619 Project
Perhaps the most prominent ostensibly journalistic endeavor since our last review of the media landscape was the “1619 Project,” an effort by controversial New York Times Magazine writer and 2016…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Responses from the Center and Right
The Trump years brought sea changes to the media, as a motivated woke-liberal audience flowed in alongside millions of dollars in nonprofit and for-profit money. Alongside that audience influx came…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Labor Watch
“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
by Michael Watson on March 16, 2021

Organization Trends
Sheldon Whitehouse Tries Out Timid McCarthyism
Last Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) appeared in a hearing of a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and suggested the Federalist Society and other law-abiding right-of-center organizations…
by Ken Braun on October 2, 2020