Michael Watson

It is no surprise the greater Jackson area has its fair share of dilapidated properties.

The Internal Revenue Service rule regarding charities in voter registration is explicit: “voter education or registration activities with evidence

We've covered “megaphone philanthropy”—the emphasis some left-wing activist groups and their multi-million or even billion-dollar funders place on street-protest imagery, often featuring people yelling through bullhorns—and the Ford Foundation, one of the Left's multiple billion-dollar funders. Our colleague Ken Braun joins us today to link them, as he has just concluded a deep investigation of the Ford Foundation's grantmaking.

Nonprofit organizations are generally not parliamentary democracies governed by their staffs. That did not stop the Southern Poverty Law Center’s unionized workers from holding a “no-confidence vote” in SPLC president Margaret Huang, in which over 90 percent of union members voted against the organization’s leader.

Immigration policy is an absolute mess—such a mess, that it can be hard for non-specialists to know even what is going on. And that’s where I for one sit regarding the so-called “CHNV parole” program, a Biden administration initiative to…

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it would make no endorsement in the presidential race for the first time since 1996. Has the previously busted myth of the nonpolitical labor union been un-busted and Big Labor broken away from the dark tower of Everything Leftism? Were the labor conservatives right all along?

Anybody who has scoffed at the proliferation of t-shirts bearing the image of Che Guevara, the famous associate of Fidel Castro who among other things oversaw purges of political opponents following Castro's seizure of power, on college campuses knows that sectors of “elite” American society have an unhealthy appreciation for the repressive Communist dictatorship that has ruled Cuba since 1959. But for the subjects of today's program, the Venceremos Brigades, backed by infrastructure support from the radical-left wing of Big Philanthropy, their unhealthy appreciation becomes outright support, as members travel to the Communist-ruled island to offer labor in exchange for ideological formation. Joining me to discuss the Venceremos Brigades' history, their influence, and what they tell us about America's radical left are my colleagues Robert Stilson and Ken Braun.

Secretary of State Michael Watson writes on the dangers of AI as it pertains to the upcoming presidential election.

The port strike has ended with a tentative wage agreement and disputes over automation and fees punted to next year. The wage agreement was the easy part. On January 15, the country could find itself back in the same position, facing extortionate strike action.

This week marked the first anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 attacks against Israel by Iranian-backed terrorist groups, most prominently Hamas. Unfortunately, in addition to solemn remembrance, the anniversary was marked by more demonstrations by the activists some might call Hamas-glampers who have come to support irredentist Palestinian nationalism. Our colleague Ryan Mauro, an expert on political extremism, has released a report detailing the pro-terrorist connections and allegiances of over 150 of the groups upholding these demonstrations, and he joins us today to discuss his findings.