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Podcast
“Who Funds That?” Episode 10: The Experts Weigh in on Fixing Higher Ed
Today’s higher education is not your grandfather’s higher education. Indeed, it’s not even the higher education of my first run through it in the 90s, before the pervasive embrace of…
by Michael Watson on June 23, 2026

Education Reform
Schools for bullies … but not for the rest of the kids
Whether out of fear, union pressure, or institutional culture, the duty to protect children is getting routinely abandoned. School choice is how embattled families are escaping.
by Kali Fontanilla on February 16, 2026

Labor Watch
Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026
Big Labor had big worries about a second Trump administration. But big donors on the left and curious allies on the right are helping the union bosses survive and thrive.
by Michael Watson on January 19, 2026

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #391: Nabbing Maduro
In the early morning hours of January 3rd, the U.S. military, in an impressively covert operation, captured Venezuela’s self-declared president Nicolas Maduro and his wife and spirited them away to…
by Michael Watson on January 13, 2026

Organization Trends
The right fights get serious
A battle for the leadership of the center-right after Trump leaves the stage was inevitable. But the murder of Charlie Kirk has moved the simmering dispute to the front burner.
by Michael Watson on December 19, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #376: Correcting the Record: Why the Smithsonian Needs Oversight
The Smithsonian Institution, the federal government-created and funded entity that manages the national museums in D.C., is under a very political review courtesy of the Trump administration. Progressives decry the…
by Michael Watson on August 26, 2025

Commentary
CRC Mourns the Loss of a Conservative Giant—Ed Feulner, Founder of the Heritage Foundation
Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr., a good friend and adviser to Capital Research Center, passed away on Friday, July 18, at age 83. Ed Feulner was a founder of the…
by Scott Walter on July 22, 2025

Organization Trends
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.
by Jonathan Harsh on April 11, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #353: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Immigration
How much did the U.S. government spend on illegal migrants and dubious asylum claimants over the past four years? That is the question that many people are asking after Elon…
by Michael Watson on February 21, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #349: Biden’s Defund the Police Door Dash
On its way out the door, the Biden administration provided a number of exit gifts for its allies amongst left-wing groups: feminists and abortion-rights activists received a legally toothless declaration…
by Michael Watson on January 24, 2025