John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:

How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Most Americans have probably seen or heard advertisements from lawyers about the contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. A law passed in August 2022 created an expedited process for veterans to recover damages for exposure to the contaminated water, but the law failed to cap lawyer fees, contrary to standard practice. CRC's Robert Stilson examines the Lawsuit Lobby's role here.

Who wants to return to lockdowns and masking?
The lockdown-and-mask era of COVID-19 would seem to have come to an end, but the "People's CDC" believes the "pandemic restrictions are too lax." More worrisome, this ideologically radical activist group has backing from some of the biggest names in health policy. CRC's Michael Watson looks at these efforts to prolong the appearance of a crisis here.

How big is the Soros nonprofit empire?
New filings reveal that George Soros's nonprofit empire has poured out nearly $21 billion since 2000, making him perhaps the biggest ATM for leftist political causes in the world. The Open Society Foundations and its sister, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, funneled $2.7 billion into (largely left-wing) nonprofits in 2021 alone. Hayden Ludwig looks below the surface at the Soros iceberg here.

What did we discover about Arabella Advisors in 2022?
When we broke the news on the Arabella empire in late 2018, no one associated it with "dark money." Three years later, Arabella's become the poster child of secret spending in Washington, DC. In 2022, we reported on the origins of the Arabella empire--in 2008--courtesy of guest researcher Dave Skinner. Noting ongoing lawsuits and investigations, CRC's Hayden Ludwig promises more to come in 2023 here.

See also:

"Dark money" is behind the latest efforts to transform American elections
"Environmental Activists Are Still Ruining People's Lives"
Woke unions
ERIC and misuse of state voter data

New Issue

Capital Research
October/November 2023

In the October/November 2022 issue of Capital Research, guest author Kali Fontanillaa, a former high school teacher, tells how she discovered and exposed critical race theory in her school and endured the resulting backlash.

BlackRock gets the "greenwashing" treatment, and CRC's Robert Stilson explores the role of the Institute for Policy Studies in founding the modern Left.

CRC's Hayden Ludwig reviews Defending the Master Race, a biography of Madison Grant, one of the founding fathers of the eugenics movement.

Download your copy here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 249

The Lawsuit Lobby

In this episode: Few professions have earned as low approval ratings as lawyers--in Gallup polling on the public's perceptions of professions' ethics, lawyers are underwater, alongside journalists, business executives, and non-federal politicians. But despite the public's relatively low opinion of the profession, the trial bar maintains a massive "Lawsuit Lobby" that supports the vast infrastructure of litigation--and lawyers' fees--that is a part of American life.

Michael Watson and co-host Sarah Lee were joined by their colleague Robert Stilson to discuss Stilson's four-part series on the Lawsuit Lobby.