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Organization Trends
The Progressive International: The “Left of the Left” Goes Global
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) issued a reprehensible response to the October 2023 terrorist attacks upon Israel, finally revealing the group’s true nature to many, but the DSA is…
by Robert Stilson on February 14, 2024

Organization Trends
The Progressive International: Israel the Enemy
While the United States (and the capitalist imperialism it supposedly embodies) is portrayed as the ultimate source of general human misery, Israel receives an outsized share of specific blame. Indeed,…
by Robert Stilson on February 14, 2024

Organization Trends
The Progressive International: Members
The Progressive International sits at the very ideological fringes of global leftism, and this says much about the true nature of those American activist groups that have joined the coalition.
by Robert Stilson on February 14, 2024

Organization Trends
The Progressive International: Leadership
A persistent problem in contemporary sociopolitical commentary is that people, groups, and ideas that aren’t especially radical are nevertheless regularly portrayed as such, while those that truly exist far outside…
by Robert Stilson on February 14, 2024

Commentary
Merry Christmas, 2023
Forty-two years ago, President Ronald Reagan addressed a nation facing turmoil abroad in Central Europe and high inflation at home, among numerous other challenges. His words may seem surprising relevant…
by CRC Staff on December 25, 2023

Book Profile
Book Review: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
In his latest book, Matt Palumbo explains the origins and rise to power of the fact-checking industry, the major players in it, and their uniform ideological bend toward the Left.
by Parker Thayer on April 3, 2023

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Wants to Silence Free Speech
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 31, 2023

Organization Trends
National Lawyers Guild: Origins and Early Years
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Since its founding in 1936 or 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified…
by CRC Staff on July 19, 2022

Organization Trends
National Lawyers Guild: The Second Red Scare
The willingness of Guild members to represent communists in several high-profile investigations and prosecutions during the late 1940s and early 1950s, combined with strong anti-communist sentiments in Congress and among…
by CRC Staff on July 19, 2022

Organization Trends
National Lawyers Guild: The Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
The National Lawyers Guild was the first racially integrated national bar association in the United States, and actively opposed military segregation during World War II. A number of notable civil rights…
by CRC Staff on July 19, 2022