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2 months ago | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
We try not to wade into the more salacious soap opera stories that quite frankly infest the D.C. political world. But when a story intersects with work we do, well, we’re not above getting down into the dirt a little.
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2 months ago | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
Addiction breaks lives, breaks families, and on a mass scale can break societies, but breaking an addiction is quite difficult.
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2 months ago | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
Today a Senate Committee voted to advance former Oregon Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s controversial pick for Labor Secretary, to a full floor vote, so Americans would do well to begin preparing for an impending onslaught of labor-related news, especially since, as my colleague Mike Watson will likely make clear in this episode, the new courtship of Big Labor coming from the right made the unlikely pick of Chavez-DeRemer a possibility.
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2 months ago | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
How much did the U.S. government spend on illegal migrants and dubious asylum claimants over the past four years? That is the question that many people are asking after Elon Musk, who is the frontman for the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency teams, claimed that FEMA had spent $59 million on “luxury hotels” to house migrants.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Michael Watson
America's Investigative Think Tank
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
The Trump administration is dismantling DEI within the federal workforce and ESG is slowly morphing into one of the most irritating terms in corporate governance. But conservatives, sensing there may be more work yet to do, might wonder if there is anything they can do individually to help end these discriminatory and counter-productive policies once and for all. Turns out, there is.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
On its way out the door, the Biden administration provided a number of exit gifts for its allies amongst left-wing groups: feminists and abortion-rights activists received a legally toothless declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment, which had a ratification deadline that expired no later than 1982, was validly ratified; Native American activists and the extreme-left saw American Indian Movement radical Leonard Peltier, convicted of involvement in the deaths of two FBI agents, released...
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
Almost everyone can look at the education landscape in America today and see that something has gone very, very wrong. Spending per student has increased, and there is no evidence that this increased spending has improved student performance outcomes. But what if there are factors eating up the budget and keeping the student performance outcomes stagnant? Factors such as the rise of teachers unions in non-right-to-work states, for example?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Michael Watson
In 2005, Andy Stern and James P. Hoffa, the leaders of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), led their massive unions and five other national labor unions out of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of labor unions. They called their new rival federation “Change to Win” and vowed to reverse the Long Decline in labor organizing that had, at that point, been going on for a half-century. They failed; they changed and lost.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
capitalresearch.org | Sarah Lee |Michael Watson
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is following the model of conservative-led states like Texas, which have adopted policies restricting left-wing racial ideologies and race-conscious practices. Joining us to discuss Texas’s experience in countering DEI is Kate Bierly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
