CRC Welcomes New Education Research Fellow Kali Fontanilla
Capital Research Center (CRC) welcomes Kali Fontanilla as a new research fellow, teacher, and critic of all things woke. Fontanilla, a former public high school teacher of 15 years, and…
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
The SPLC’s Readymade Lessons for Teaching Radicalism in the Classroom
Despite the education crisis in America, teachers are taking precious time in the classroom to deliver lessons steeped in leftist narratives and agendas. The source of this political indoctrination is…
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…
Best of CRC Media Hits for July–September 2022
The summer of 2022 was marked by several syndicated stories. The two most prominent were activist Shaun King’s misuse of charitable donations to purchase an expensive guard dog for his…
Amalgamated Bank: How Did We Get Here?
Few entities embody the symbiotic relationship between American organized labor and the Left better than Amalgamated Bank. With a client list that includes some of the biggest political players in…
Amalgamated Bank: Philanthropic Politics
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation has ballooned its revenues by 8,890 percent since its creation, from revenues of $253,000 in 2017 to nearly $23 million in 2019. The 501(c)(3) is focused on…
Amalgamated Bank: “Hate Is Not Charitable”
In mid-2019, the Amalgamated Charitable launched an aggressive campaign to curb donations to conservative, libertarian, and right-leaning nonprofits by labeling them “hate groups.” The Hate Is Not Charitable campaign was…
Amalgamated Bank: Shareholder Activism
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)activism can also extend beyond an organization’s own practices and investment decisions. Shareholders in publicly traded companies can attempt to leverage their position to pressure…
The Costs of Lost Credibility
One of the widely remarked-upon dynamics of advocacy institutions in recent years is the subsuming of single-issue groups into their broader political coalitions. For watchdog groups, this can have real…
ActBlue: The Democrats’ $400 Million “Dark Money” Machine
Give ActBlue an A+ for juicing the professional Left—and an F for transparency. The Left’s fundraising platform of choice is gargantuan, pulling in $407 million in 2020 between its 501(c)(3)…