InfluenceWatch Friday
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A Conversation with the University of Oregon’s Renée A. Irvin
The economist and scholar of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the definition(s) of “dark money,” and her recent article, “How Dark Is It? An…
The Carnegie Endowment Could Use Some Sunlight
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has recently come under fire for hiring members of the Chinese Communist Party. Carnegie takes in millions from the U.S. government as well as…
China’s Propaganda War and How to Stop It
When President Richard Nixon took a chance on normalizing relations with China in 1972 after a quarter century of diplomatic freeze, China to most Americans was just a Third World…
Are Taxpayers Getting a Square Deal by Funding Brookings?
Did you know you’re funding the well-heeled scholars at the Brookings Institution, a hoary D.C. think tank? A new report by OpenTheBooks.com, a database that tracks government grants, has…