InfluenceWatch, a project of Capital Research Center, is a comprehensive and ever-evolving compilation of our research into the numerous advocacy groups, foundations, and donors working to influence ...

It is nearly impossible to buy solar power without paying China, but President Xi has a lot of useful idiots in the USA who want to keep him in business. Nearly all of America’s largest environmental ...

In late 2025 and early 2026, federal immigration enforcement under Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota triggered an immediate, coordinated backlash. Rapid-response hotlines were activated, ...

It does not rank particularly highly in terms of its net assets under management ($215 million at the end of 2024), or the length of time it has operated. But for approximately the last three years, ...

Cue the fanfare and Pomp and Circumstance March Number One: The MacArthur Foundation has revealed its latest class of “Genius Grant” recipients (officially styled MacArthur Fellows). But behind the ...

In 2024, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates made a $7.88 billion contribution to a charitable foundation established by his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. Media outlets have reported that that the gift ...

Imagine a parent in Chicago. Their child is in third grade and still cannot read at grade level. They have been told, repeatedly, that the district is working on it. They have been told every minute ...

The controversial 1619 Project burst back into the news last week because its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, published an essay in New York Times Magazine conceding a harsh truth no school choice ...

Last week the Trump administration proposed a ban on exports of diesel fuel. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) swiftly responded by praising the Republican president as a climate hero. Just ...

CRC is pleased to announce that the August 2026 issue of Capital Research is now available online. It is our celebration of America’s 250th birthday.

As we discussed last week, the robot apocalypse is maybe not coming, which means that we’re going to have to learn to live with artificial intelligence and related technologies. And now Randi ...