Maduro’s friends in America: the Alliance for Global Justice
The Alliance supports collectivist dictatorships across Latin America, and Nicolas Maduro was no exception.
Venceremos Brigade
Fifty years after the final Weatherman bombing
The Weather Underground supposedly ended its terrorism after September 1975, but the legacy remains in today’s politics.
Thinking About Fiscal Sponsorship: Purpose and Politics
On the surface, fiscally sponsored projects can look and act just like independent nonprofits. Some weigh in on controversial sociopolitical issues and affect associated public policy debates. Unlike standalone nonprofits,…
Thinking About Fiscal Sponsorship: Pop Ups and Perpetuity
Countless nonprofits engage in political or public policy activism on controversial matters, and some do so from radical perspectives. But fiscal sponsorship raises some unique issues that are not present…
Thinking About Fiscal Sponsorship: The Form 990 Black Hole
IRS Form 990, an annual return that most nonprofits are required to file with the IRS, provides considerable detail about the filing nonprofit’s financials, leadership, activities, and more. But Form…
Thinking About Fiscal Sponsorship: Potential Reforms
On the one hand, fiscal sponsorship is a common and legitimate arrangement that can provide important benefits to small and/or new tax-exempt ventures. At the same time, some issues—particularly with…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #335: Castro’s Useful Idiots
Anybody who has scoffed at the proliferation of t-shirts bearing the image of Che Guevara, the famous associate of Fidel Castro who among other things oversaw purges of political opponents…
The Venceremos Brigade
In July, members of the 52nd contingent of the Venceremos Brigade traveled to Cuba to demonstrate their solidarity with the country’s communist government. They were the latest of approximately 10,000…