Entries by Capital Research Center

Left-Wing Financiers Stand by CAIR After Pro-Hamas Remarks

The top foundations financing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are refusing to rule out future support of CAIR even after the Capital Research Center alerted them to its executive director’s public celebration of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the Biden Administration’s subsequent disavowal of CAIR. CAIR’s Funders In December, the Capital Research Center collaborated with Focus on Western Islamism to […]

Social Justice Unionism Means Pro-Abortion Big Labor

Last week, Politico reported on a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and return the question of abortion regulation to the states, ending the Court’s invention of a constitutional right to abortion. The draft opinion was greeted with predictable outrage from left-progressives, including those in organized labor. Statements Now, many people, especially […]

Foundations Destroying American Public Education: The Hydra

Summary: The world of K–12 education policy has long been dominated by philanthropic foundations. Much of the education “reform” sweeping across America has been financed and pushed by elite, well-heeled foundations. They have used the billions from their endowments to create various associations and activist groups to promote these changes. The Ford, Kellogg, and MacArthur […]

VIDEO: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court!

You don’t want to miss the latest episode of Capital Research Center and Dangerous Documentaries’ new series The Politically Incorrect Guide, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court! Watch it now!  In the third episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide podcasters and authors Tom Woods and Michael Malice become the un-PC Schoolhouse Rock to bust myths about the American Judiciary. […]

VIDEO: No Safe Spaces opening this week!

The First Amendment and the very idea of free speech are under attack in America today. A growing number of Americans don’t believe you have the right to speak your mind if what you have to say might offend someone, somewhere. They advocate for “safe spaces” in which people won’t be offended by ideas they may find troubling. But is that what […]

New York Times’ 1619 Project: All the News that’s Fit for the MacArthur Foundation?

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect Bryan Stevenson’s 1995 MacArthur Fellowship. The New York Times’s controversial “1619 Project” is a series of essays and features examining the history of slavery in the U.S. and how that still affects modern America. Commenting on the history of the project itself, the media giant credits the idea […]

Architects of Woke: Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror [Video]

The Architects of Woke will release episodes throughout 2019. The series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large.  The second episode, “Slavoj Žižek & the Romance of Revolutionary Terror”, covers the influence of the famed Slovenian communist […]

BREAKING: CRC Exposes Left-Wing Dark Money Network

As presidential candidates promise to refuse so-called “dark money” and Members of Congress decry the role of money in politics, a Special Report from CRC dispels one of the biggest myths in political discourse: the Left doesn’t use “dark money.” CRC’s report by investigative researcher Hayden Ludwig, Big Money in Dark Shadows: Arabella Advisors’ Half-billion-dollar “Dark […]

The “Green” Whitehouse Agenda: The Enemies List

The “Green Whitehouse” Agenda (full series) The Enemies List | Green Pays | Sheldon’s Endgame Summary: Americans are accustomed to politicians saying one thing and doing another. But arguments about the funding behind think tanks and advocacy organizations are perhaps the most one-sided of the recurring debates on Capitol Hill. Few are as outspoken on the issue as Rhode Island […]

Architects of Woke: Judith Butler’s War on Science

The first episode of Dangerous Documentaries’ new web series, The Architects of Woke, is live on Facebook and YouTube. The first episode exposes the outsized influence of Professor Judith Butler, the Berkeley feminist, famous as the mother of the modern theory that dozens of “genders” exist, with no relation to the two biological sexes. Judith Butler’s War on Science explains the myriad ways Butler’s gender-bending […]

New Congress Members Support Green New Deal

This opinion originally appeared in the Detroit News on February 13, 2019.  Right before Election Day a Gallup poll ranked voters’ top concerns: number one was healthcare (a major issue for 80 percent), followed by the economy and immigration (both at 78 percent). The rest of the list trickled down through sexism, guns, taxes, foreign policy, trade, […]

VIDEO: How Democratic Party Lawyers Win Contested Elections

A fair and trustworthy vote accepted by all citizens is necessary for functioning democratic processes. The actions of the Democratic National Committee, Marc Elias, and George Soros have jeopardized that. What Elias has done in recounts is proof that we need strong election integrity laws, ones that partisans can’t overpower. Watch our video on partisan […]

Cross Examining the 2020 Census [+Video]

The Trump Administration intends to appeal the decision of Judge Jesse Furman at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the Southern District of New York ruled that the Commerce Department must strike a question from the 2020 Census. The question: “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” The use of his question has […]