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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Whig-Republican American political tradition and the conservative movement that grew up alongside it—or at least a faction thereof—has sought to promote American life by joining together ...

In June 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S.A., a case which ultimately arose from the expropriation of American-owned property by Cuba’s nascent ...

It’s not every day that the would be masters of the universe are going on television and proclaiming an imminent doomsday, as if they were street preachers or the people who used to walk around public ...

Oral Testimony and Video (below): Chairman Hughes, distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the honor of testifying. I’m president of the Capital Research Center, where for decades we’ve ...