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PARKER THAYER: Meet The Dark Money Network Quietly Transforming America

To the outside observer, Arabella Advisors is nothing more than an accounting and human resources firm that helps charities get things done, not a billion-dollar political influence operation helping leftists remain in power. But, in fact, it is the latter–although you’d never know it from the website. The organization certainly does not publicly hint that they […]

How ‘Dark Money’ Can Bankroll Trump’s Path To Victory

You hear a lot about “dark money” groups in politics, as both the right and the left constantly scream about them. As often happens, the true meaning of the term gets lost in the political euphemism. So what actually are “dark money” groups — and why is the left so afraid that they will carry […]

The New Deal’s Dark Underbelly

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes When I arrived at the University of Alabama almost a decade ago to begin graduate school and met the historian David Beito (who would become the co-advisor on my dissertation), he was just beginning a project on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s disregard for Americans’ civil liberties. Most critics of FDR point […]

Microsoft mocked for ‘masculine’ remake of Joanna Dark

Microsoft and Xbox came under fire after announcing a reboot of the beloved Perfect Dark series that features a dramatically different-looking protagonist. The original game was released on the Nintendo 64 in 2000 as a spiritual sequel to the smash hit “GoldenEye” game, which sold over 8 million copies. The original Perfect Dark is 3.2 […]

How The Trump Trial Harkens Back To A Dark Period In American Law

Author’s note: Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the verdict in the Trump trial. The Manhattan case, in my view, was a raw exercise of political manipulation of the criminal justice system. It is only the latest example of the use of the justice system for […]

Republicans react to historic Trump trial verdict: ‘Dark day for America’

Republican lawmakers slammed the verdict in New York v. Trump on Thursday afternoon as “fraudulent and unjust” after the former president was found guilty of all 34 charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “Today is a shameful day in American history,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said in […]

A Dem-Linked Dark Money Network Is Quietly Funding The ‘Misinformation’ Research Industry

Several funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a Democrat-linked consultant firm, are quietly bankrolling research by universities and non-profits into how online “misinformation” and “disinformation” spreads, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the networks’ grants. Arabella Advisors, run by former Bill Clinton official Eric Kessler, manages certain administrative, legal and philanthropic functions of […]