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…
Heritage Foundation
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
More Overstatement Of “The Powell Memo’s” Role
Mehrsa Baradaran’s new The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America joins many other histories in citing “the Powell memo” as an important part of their narratives. In the case of The Quiet Coup,…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #316: Federally Funded Everything Leftism
To say the federal government is merely “broke” is a gross understatement; as of recording the US Debt Clock shows the federal debt at over $34.7 trillion with the running…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #273: Biden’s War on Cars
The private automobile defined post–World War II America, liberating the masses from the regimentation of railroad schedules and the limitations of foot transportation. But the Left has never liked the…