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Podcast
“Who Funds That?” Episode 13: Organizing the DSA Revolution
You’ve heard quite a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing faction that has surged to victories in Democratic Party primary elections across the country. But how did…
by Michael Watson on July 14, 2026

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #397: Teachers Unions Target Target
That teachers’ unions are more interested in radical leftist political power than student achievement is increasingly recognized, and today’s guest brings two new pieces of evidence to pile on the…
by Michael Watson on February 24, 2026

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #395: The NGO-Government Complex
It’s Minnesota day, again. Before Minneapolis lit politics on fire with immigration-enforcement-related shootings and associated protests and riots, the story from the land of 10,000 lakes was public-benefits fraud, allegations…
by Michael Watson on February 10, 2026

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #393: Charging the Minnesota Church Disruptors
Amid protests over immigration enforcement by leftists in Minneapolis, a group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators allegedly invaded a service at a church whose pastor they claimed was an Immigration…
by Michael Watson on January 27, 2026

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #361: Justice for Greenpeace
It can seem infuriating: Leftist demonstrators wantonly violate the law, only to face no or negligible consequences because the powers that be either support or refuse to oppose their disruptive…
by Michael Watson on April 18, 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 March 14, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #297: Antisemitism’s Link to Affirmative Action (with Heather Mac Donald)
In the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s military response, America’s higher education institutions have been riven by radical pro-Palestinian demonstrations and a donor…
by Michael Watson on December 15, 2023

Organization Trends
Civil Asset Forfeiture Makes for Strange Bedfellows
In 2020, the Capital Research Center (CRC) examined civil asset forfeiture and noted how criticism of the practice had brought together a rather improbable ideological coalition. As efforts to reform…
by Robert Stilson on February 2, 2023

Book Profile
Philanthropy in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
In his new book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle recounts the ascent and dominance in American thought and public policy of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism downgraded the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on June 13, 2022

Blog
Government Takeovers: Is Charity Next?
Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute has an excellent piece on governmental encroachment on charitable foundations. The article is available at Townhall.com.
by Matthew Vadum on October 29, 2009