Torn on TikTok
The proposed ban on TikTok is a lesson in paradox and lobbying. As legislators like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) have pointed out, it’s about free speech…
Foreign Agents Registration Act
Best of CRC Media Hits for May–June 2022
Capital Research Center has increasingly become the go-to think tank on issues of influencers and their funders on issues such as election integrity, Soros prosecutors, foreign funding, and organized labor.
A Long Overdue Address of Foreign Lobbying
How much are Americans aware that their domestic, internecine political squabbles are being funded by foreign entities with interests of their own? And how much are universities and think tanks…
Foreign Funding of Nonprofits Goes Unchecked
In recent years, Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania have been called out for receiving billions of dollars from foreign actors. Welcome to an age of heightened concerns over…
Elections in Jeopardy
On The Jacki Daily Show, Sarah Lee details foreign influence and money that targets U.S. elections, and Hayden Ludwig gives an overview of the decades-long war on the Electoral College.
Foreign Funding of Elections Update
In early October, we reported on a disturbing trend related to foreign funding and U.S. lobbyists—namely, American lobbyists were taking in millions to help influence elections, circumventing the law that…
Foreign Money for Election Outcomes
Legislators and analysts interested in how nonprofit funding has shifted the political debate in the United States ought to also pay attention to another funding apparatus. This apparatus appears to…
China’s Green Offensive: The Paris Climate Agreement
Several well-funded, environmental advocacy groups lobbied and advised the Obama administration on joining the Paris Climate Agreement without disclosing their close ties to the communist government in Beijing. The agreement…
China’s Green Offensive: The Obama State Department
The major target for activists and media types gathered at U.N. meetings is not China, but the United States. In fact, compliant media organs provide China with a platform to…
China’s Green Offensive: China and Foreign Agents
Since the Paris Agreement has become a major issue in the 2020 election, now is a good time to “flush out” and “revisit” some of the “major takeaways” from the…