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Who Funds that?

Capital Research Center

The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY

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#27
Tuesday · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP 27: Launching the Counter Extremism Research Center
It seems like everywhere you look around the world, political extremism—of forms Islamist, radical-right/ultranationalist, and radical-left/neocommunist—is on the rise. Why is this so and what can be done about it? At Capital Research Center, we’re...
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#26
October 13 · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP 26: Xi's Useful Green Idiots
If you listen to any number of left-of-center environmentalist activists, donors, and advocacy groups, the People’s Republic of China is the environmental champion among the great powers, with the United States a climate criminal that should be taking...
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#25
October 6 · 22 min
Who Funds That? EP 25: Patronage for the Left's Geniuses
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...
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#24
September 29 · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP 24: Randi Weingarten's AI Slop
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 Weingarten, one of the least helpful people in American...
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#23
September 22 · 33 min
Who Funds That? EP 23: The Prophets of the AI Apocalypse
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 parks with sandwich boards saying “The end is...
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#22
September 15 · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP 22: The Commies' Lawyers
They say that every son of a gun deserves a lawyer and his day in court; it’s a core principle of the American legal system. But certain lawyers informally focus on certain cases and certain clients, often for ideological reasons. That raises the...
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#21
September 8 · 26 min
Who Funds That? EP 21: The Next 30 Years of Big Labor
On this podcast, we largely cover who funds the groups and people who are influencing public policy — and today we'll be diving into the abyss of labor unions with our regular host and CRC's research director, Mike Watson. Thirty years ago, a former...
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#20
September 1 · 24 min
Who Funds That? EP 20: How Charities Are Influencing Elections
Charities (like Capital Research Center) are formally prohibited from intervening in election campaigns. But for years, liberal Big Philanthropy has exploited non-enforcement and loopholes in the law to use charities for transparently electoral...
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#19
August 25 · 35 min
Who Funds That? EP 19: State of the Iran Conflict
Occasionally we step back from our usual focus on advocacy groups and take a broader look at the news and the world around us, with help from subject-matter experts. This week, we take a look at Iran, and the lessons the ongoing conflict and other...
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#18
August 18 · 23 min
Who Funds That? EP 18: You Fund That
On this podcast, we take time to investigate who funds the groups and people who are influencing public policy—but what if you want to be one of those people? Well, you could always provide well-appreciated support to us if you like the sort of things...
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#17
August 12 · 21 min
Who Funds That? EP 17: Against Nuclear Energy, Against Humanity
Do environmentalists—and the rest of the progressive left that includes combating climate change as part of its “Omnicause”—care more about saving the planet or replacing market capitalism, private property, and pluralist living arrangements with...
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#16
August 4 · 21 min
Who Funds That? EP 16: Big Labor’s Leftist Investments
A faction of the political right, supported by the think tank American Compass that is funded by the leftist Hewlett Foundation, claims that organized labor has a “conservative heart” and should be empowered to dominate American life in a manner not...
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#15
July 28 · 28 min
Who Funds That? EP 15: Congress Considers Nonprofit Regulation
Many people are saying that Congress doesn’t do anything, and…yeah they’re often correct—and that’s sometimes a good thing. But on the subject of nonprofit and advocacy group regulation, the House Committee on Ways and Means—responsible for writing...
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#14
July 21 · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP14: The Foreign Funding Election Loophole
It is supposed to be the law that foreigners, people who do not have citizenship or permanent residency, cannot fund federal election campaigns. But our colleague Parker Thayer notes that there is a giant loophole in this prohibition—one that the...
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#13
July 14 · 23 min
Who Funds That? EP13: Organizing the DSA Revolution
You’ve heard quite a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing faction that has surged to victories in Democratic Party primary elections across the country. But how did what was as recently as the early 2010s a marginal player on...
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July 7 · 27 min
Who Funds That? EP12: Trump Can Say "You're Fired"
The Supreme Court has issued its rulings, and with big decisions on citizenship, transgender athletes, and congressional redistricting, a major case with significant impacts on policy may fly under the radar. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court ruled...
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#11
June 30 · 29 min
Who Funds That? EP11: What to Make of AI Opposition
Artificial intelligence: what does it mean? Is it taking all the water? Is it taking all the jobs? Are foreign interests, radical socialists, and cynical AI companies misleading the public about what AI is doing to America? Our colleague Parker Thayer...
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#10
June 23 · 27 min
Who Funds That? EP10: The Experts Weigh in on Fixing Higher Ed
Today’s higher education is not your grandfather’s higher education. Indeed, it’s not even the higher education of my first run through it in the 90s, before the pervasive embrace of DEI and critical race theory, before the extreme ideological...
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#6
June 16 · 18 min
Who Funds That? EP9: Poisoned Ivies with Rep. Elise Stefanik
Since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, the Everything Leftist Omnicause has turned its Eye of Sauron toward aggressive support for Palestinian nationalism—support for Palestinian nationalism that all too frequently crosses the line from a...
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#8
June 9 · 25 min
Who Funds That? EP8: Enemies of Energy
Without energy, we have nothing: The economy relies on it; our entertainments rely on it; our schools rely on it; our comfort and lives rely on it. But the energy on which we all rely has enemies, and our colleague Ken Braun has traced them in his new...
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