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- Where did "Zuck bucks" start?
The "Zuck bucks" story begins with the New Organizing Institute, the predecessor of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). From 2005 to 2015, the institute had one purpose: elect Democrats. When it dissolved amid allegations of financial mismanagement, three top staffers founded CTCL in Chicago, and the rest is history. CRC's Hayden Ludwig uncovers CTCL's origins here.
- How connected are the Bidens and China?
One of the most interesting revelations from the ongoing Biden classified documents drama is the starring role of Penn Biden Center, where the first classified documents were found. The center appears to be little more than an accounting code camouflaged as a think tank--a code that received tens of millions of dollars as "gifts" from China. CRC's Sarah Lee probes the Biden "think tank" here.
- Is Big Labor becoming relevant again?
The legacy media would have us believe that 2022 was a banner year for labor organizing after victories over Amazon, Starbucks, and Microsoft. Yet in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics rudely popped that left-wing bubble. Union membership did rise by 273,000, but the percentage of unionized workers dropped to 10.1 percent. CRC's Michael Watson assesses organized labor's dismal prospects here.
- Should the privileges of establishment philanthropy be revoked?
In America and the Art of the Possible, author Christopher Buskirk laments that "our ability to accomplish great things as a nation has waned in recent decades," noting that Americans have become more risk averse. CRC's Michael Hartmann reviews Buskirk's call to revitalize a "frontier mentality" in the context of Big Philanthropy here.
See also: - A book review of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
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