Capital Research Center

10/09/2026

Stephanie Slade’s new book is a fascinating historical tour through the ideological alliance between conservatives, libertarians, and other right-center movements. But Michael Watson argues that old-school fusionism wasn’t nearly as strong as Slade portrays it, nor as definitively dead as we might assume.

Covering the Cold War to the present, Stephanie Slade’s new book is a fascinating historical tour through the ideological alliance between conservatives, libertarians and other right-center movements. She also argues this “fusionism” has been steadily fading away since President Reagan left of...

10/08/2026

How far left is the Marguerite Casey Foundation? Even by academia’s standards, its Freedom Scholars stand out.

We discuss the foundation’s $250,000 unrestricted awards and the ideas it wants to advance on the Who Funds That? podcast:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/who-funds-that-episode-25-patronage-for-the-lefts-geniuses/

10/07/2026

China is the undisputed world champion producer of CO2 emissions, but left-leaning American NGOs and their donors cheer as if the authoritarian regime has been a climate superstar.

Read more: https://capitalresearch.org/article/climate-ngos-are-xi-jinpings-useful-idiots-in-america/

10/07/2026

The MacArthur Foundation has officially announced its latest round of “Genius Grants,” but do the recipients really deserve the title? Or is this just a rebrand of old-fashioned political patronage?

We discuss on the latest episode of the Who Funds That? podcast.

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 marketing hype, this program—and the related program of the even-more-radical Marguerite…

10/06/2026

A lefty NGO decided to fact-check our Enemies of Energy report without…checking our facts. Ken Braun was kind enough to break down just how far their fact-check falls short.

A recent CRC report on the anti-energy movement was reviewed by a left-wing NGO. They got a few quotes correct yet ignored 100 percent of the supporting evidence provided in the report to back up those statements. The omission demonstrates how bullet proof the report truly is.

10/05/2026

The prosperity America created is helping fund campaigns to discredit the system that made it possible.

Our latest issue of Capital Research Magazine examines how activist nonprofits, foundations, and Big Labor portray American virtues as vices, and why those virtues are worth defending.

The August 2026 issue of Capital Research magazine profiles some of the movements that have been teaching Americans to hate what we should love about ourselves.

10/02/2026

Nonprofits belonging to a coalition of NYC Medicaid homecare providers have been accused of multiple financial misdeeds. The leader of the coalition has allegedly taken money from banks linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

Over the last five years, nonprofits belonging to a coalition of New York City Medicaid homecare providers have been accused of multiple financial misdeeds. The leader of the coalition is the Chinese-American Planning Council, an NGO that has allegedly taken money from banks linked to the Chinese Co...

10/02/2026

1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed the idea that America was founded as a “slaveocracy.” But an experiment she ran on her daughter proves that today’s low-income families are damaged more by the lack of school choice than by the lack of options endured by their ancestors.

In 2019, the New York Times journalist obsessed over the idea that America was founded as a “slaveocracy,” where black Americans had no choice over their future. But an experiment she ran on her own daughter proves today’s low-income families are damaged far more by the lack of school choice t...

10/01/2026

AI regulation appears to be inevitable. The real question now is who gets to write the rules.

Watch the full episode: https://capitalresearch.org/article/who-funds-that-episode-24-randi-weingartens-ai-slop/

10/01/2026

The hypocrisy is staggering.
The Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund loudly opposed the Trump administration’s proposal to increase natural gas exports. Yet it has said nothing about a new proposal to limit exports of far dirtier diesel fuel.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/politics-over-policy-the-diesel-export-ban-and-the-nrdcs-hypocrisy/