An entire library was to Martin but an “after-dinner mint.” He daily consumed oceans of books, newspapers, and magazines on every subject imaginable and several beyond the imaginations of most…
Martin understood what real civic participation is—love of your neighbors, your local sports teams, and your local civic festivals. Hazlett recalls how Martin “viewed every parade, and devoured each spectacle.”…
Martin relentlessly hammered Big Philanthropy. On the one hand, he could write with deep appreciation of titans whose entrepreneurial genius allowed them to amass a fortune that would later be,…
Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR), a front for the New Venture Fund was spawned to influence the states’ map-drawing process to favor “communities of color and other historically underrepresented communities”—in…
Enemies of free speech apparently feel right at home in the country’s largest “dark money” lobbying empire. Case-in-point, the Dangerous Speech Project aims to “inoculate” Americans against right-wing “hate” and…
New filings reveal how three of the largest foundations in the world are using Washington’s top “dark money” lobbying network to change policy in America, further evidence that the Left…
Common sense might suggest that foundations interested in voter turnout should bankroll get-out-the-vote efforts rather than registration campaigns to get the most bang for their buck. In fact, they fund…
The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is under fire for illegally sharing sensitive voter data with at least one partisan nonprofit, according to lawsuits filed by the Thomas More Society against elections departments in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,…
Europe’s conservative faithful have long been under fire from “progressives” infuriated by the historic Christian views of abortion, education, and marriage. In recent years, openDemocracy has launched a salvo of…
Common sense might suggest that foundations interested in voter turnout should bankroll get-out-the-vote efforts rather than registration campaigns to get the most bang for their buck. In fact, they fund…