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Teen Vogue is a political publication, with writers who have policy objectives and ties to political organizations. For example, Allegra Kirkland, the politics director of Teen Vogue, was previously a reporter (and later senior editor) at Talking Points Memo, a left-biased news website, where she covered “extremist groups, voting rights, and the Trump administration.” Her articles at TPM included criticisms of Ron DeSantis, William Barr’s “absurd defenses” of Donald Trump, and GOP gerrymandering. Colleen Hamilton, a contributor to Teen Vogue and author of the article “Healthcare for Trans Kids: How Parents Are Fighting to Get Their Children the Care They Need” boasts even clearer political ties. According to her website, her reporting focuses on “grassroots movements for social justice, queer liberation.” She is also a “nonprofit communications consultant” and has worked with organizations such as the gun control advocacy network March for Our Lives. Kirkland and Hamilton are far from the only Teen Vogue employees with political activist backgrounds. Lexi McMenamin, Teen Vogue’s news and politics editor, has a long history of working for political organizations. McMenamin had a stint working at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a liberal organization focused on creating a society “where people of color, immigrants . . . and LGBTQ communities thrive together.” The CPD works with other left-of-center organizations like CASA de Maryland and Action Now in Illinois. After leaving the CPD, McMenamin worked as a field organizer for Carol-Shea Porter (D-NH) on her campaign for Congress in New Hampshire. Shea-Porter is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives and served as vice-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. McMenamin also interned twice at the Urban Justice Center (UJC) before working as the UJC’s media coordinator. The UJC is a left-of-center legal foundation that notably runs the Sex Workers Project, which provides legal services to sex workers in New York City. McMenamin’s history of voter advocacy continued at NextGen America, an organization that dedicates millions of dollars to electing Democrats, as a political organizer in New Hampshire, where NextGen worked with SEIU International and Planned Parenthood Votes. After NextGen America, McMenamin worked for Public Justice as a communications associate. Public Justice is a nonprofit legal firm that focuses on lawsuits against the government and major businesses. Teen Vogue writer James Factora, a “queer trans movement journalist,” is a prolific contributor to both Teen Vogue and Them, which are sometimes one and the same because, in addition to sharing writers, Teen Vogue also cross posts articles from other platforms, such as Them. In a post on Them’s website, Factora refers to the Republican Party’s “quest to obliterate Black History Month” and writes dozens of indictments of Republican policy at both the state and federal levels. Them is an LGBT magazine owned by Conde Nast, the same parent company that owns Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue is only one arm of Conde Nast’s media empire, which includes the left-leaning publications Them, Wired, and the New Yorker. In all my time reading through the Teen Vogue website and investigating its writers, I found no articles with a conservative lean and no writers with explicit (or implicit) ties to conservative organizations or viewpoints. If your teen is reading Teen Vogue, be aware that the content they are consuming includes highly political and sexual articles. Teen Vogue’s politics and identity sections are echo chambers that promote only one point of view. Teen Vogue employs writers with left-leaning political experience, and they are cultivating readers who could become the next generation of employees at organizations like NextGen America and March for Our Lives. To learn more, visit www.capitalresearch.org.

On April 6, energy firm NextEra pleaded guilty to three federal charges of killing eagles with wind turbines. The plea included an $8 million fine, an agreement to pay almost $30,000 for future eagle kills, and a commitment to spend $27 million to prevent future kills. The penalties should have been worse. Prosecutors alleged NextEra’s raptor-slayers had executed 150 eagles in eight states. NextEra didn’t act alone. Hundreds of hypocritical nonprofits implicitly endorse eagle elimination because they oppose nuclear energy and promote massive build-out of wind turbines. Their combined annual budgets exceed $1 billion. The notorious list includes the Natural Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Financial support comes from big names such as the Ford Foundation. A March 2021 Department of Energy report stated that a “typical” nuclear plant “needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate,” while “wind farms require 360 times more land area to produce the same amount of electricity and solar photovoltaic plants require 75 times more space.” Supporters of wind energy are not conservationists. There’s nothing “clean” about energy that devours hundreds of times the land needed by another carbon-free option and then needlessly wipes out eagles as a cost of doing business. Renewables Can’t Meet Energy Needs President Joe Biden hasn’t learned this yet. In his March 1 State of the Union address he pledged to “double America’s clean energy production in solar, wind, and so much more.” But despite hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies already given out, solar, and wind together still accounted for less than 5 percent of total American energy consumption in 2020. Biden’s speech didn’t mention increasing production of nuclear or the other fuels that account for 95 percent of the energy we need. In 2020 the combined output of every wind turbine and solar panel on Earth was 6,037 TWh (terawatt hours). In comparison, the American nuclear program alone produced 2,051 TWh, even as it represented just 8.4 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. Conservationists Should Support Nuclear Energy If the president, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the rest were conservationists, they’d ditch the wasteful wind subsidies and instead demand a doubling (or more) of carbon-free nuclear energy. The Department of Energy reports uranium is “a common metal found in rocks all over the world” and “economically recoverable” in the United States and more than a dozen other nations. France obtained 36.1 percent of total energy consumption from nuclear in 2020. Of the five richest and largest industrial economies, the French are the least carbon intensive per capita. In 2020, French carbon emissions measured 3.8 tCO2 per person, compared to 4.6 for the United Kingdom, 7.0 for Germany, 8.2 for Japan, and 13.0 for the United States. If 36 percent of American energy consumption in 2020 had been nuclear, that could have theoretically displaced all of the coal and nearly half of oil consumption. (Although this would have required many more vehicles to run on electricity). Fake conservationists are marching us in the other direction. Last April the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund cheered the closure of the Indian Point nuclear station in upstate New York. In an absurd defense of the weather-restricted power industry, the Sierra Club released a graphic showing house cats kill more birds than wind turbines. Well, yes, house cats prey upon America’s inexhaustible supply of quickly reproducing sparrows, robins, and other small birds. For the Sierra Club to equate this with wind turbines wiping out big and slow-to-reproduce predators is as silly as saying a Formula One racer is comparable to what is found at a roadside used car lot. Protecting Wild Animals and the Wide Open Quoted by NPR after the federal plea deal, the leader of the eagle-killing wind firm copped a Sierra Club attitude: “NextEra President Rebecca Kujawa said collisions of birds with wind turbines are unavoidable accidents that should not be criminalized.” Every single one of those collisions is avoidable, because wind turbines themselves are avoidable. We’d be knocking almost all of them down if the sanctimonious anti-nuclear nonprofits acted like conservationists who enjoy witnessing wild animals and wide-open spaces. To learn more: https://capitalresearch.org/article/supporters-of-wind-farms-over-nuclear-power-are-eagle-killers-not-conservationists/

If you thought your children were safe from the Left’s culture war in a private school, think again. Across America, a pandemic of “woke” ideology is quietly spreading through privately run schools and colleges supposedly shielded from government control. Proponents may call this new teaching “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), but that’s a euphemism for a dark agenda: inculcating kids with the Left’s malicious obsession with race. Far from promoting independent thought, it’s a campaign to crush dissent and rewrite history while teaching children to hate one another for the color of their skin. The public is almost completely unaware of how activists are indoctrinating America’s youth with transgenderism, racial segregation, and other far-left “virtues”—and still would be, if not for the efforts of a handful of courageous moms bent on exposing the truth. Meet Undercover Mother, a group of roughly 100 volunteer moms and dads from across the nation engaged in some of the finest investigative journalism happening today. These Undercover Mothers are fighting in the trenches to defeat the radical Left’s agenda that’s taken over our schools. If they succeed, it’d mean nothing less than saving America’s nonprofit schools—and the students they teach—from the radical Left.

Today’s labor unions have a big problem: membership. As of 2020, less than seven percent of private-sector workers were part of a union. And membership rates have been plummeting for years. But labor leaders think they have a plan to turn things around: Target and organize the next generation of workers. If you’re between the ages of 18 and 34, Big Labor Wants You! Labor unions have one major motivator for growing their ranks: money. On average, larger unions collected almost $2.5 million in dues in 2019. For each member, these dues can range anywhere from $360-$1200 per year. And that's not including initiation fees which can easily cost over $100 dollars. The steady drop in membership has meant a drop in the amount of dues unions take in. And unions losing money is bad news for their allies on the political Left, who rely heavily on the funding they receive from unions each year. In fact, labor unions spent a whopping $1.8 billion on politics and lobbying in 2020, the vast majority of which went to Democratic causes, regardless of the political preference of dues-paying union members. It turns out that even during a global pandemic, one that left many union members without jobs, Big Labor made sure to prioritize its own political agenda. Then, there’s the track record of corruption. For example, in 2020 the United Auto Workers was put under a six-year-long monitorship after a federal investigation found several union officials—including two past presidents—guilty of wrongdoing, including embezzlement and fraud. The next year, the executive director of the Service Employees International Union’s California arm was also charged with multiple counts of tax fraud, embezzlement, and perjury. And those are just some of the latest examples. Young voters should know that unions want to collect as much money as possible to fuel their political agenda, which may not align with their own. And since their traditional worker base is no longer buying what they’re selling, unions are turning to the younger generation to help line their pockets. The gig economy, restaurant workers, media companies, and tech operations are among newly targeted workplaces. Young Americans deserve to know the truth about Big Labor’s quest for more money and political power -- all at the expense of young people’s individual paychecks

Entryism is a political strategy of infiltration, first taught by Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1934, in which “members of one group are encouraged to enter a larger organization with the intent of subverting its policies and objectives from within.” Today, entryism is still a common tactic of the far-left.

For years, environmentalists have been pushing for solar and wind to replace oil, gas, and coal. But there’s one question that hasn’t come up nearly enough: what happens when the sun sets and the wind stops? Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...

Andrés travels around America to call attention to Venezuela’s plight and to warn Americans – don’t let it happen here too. The biggest threat to the American dream and our liberties is the so called “socialist dream”: free college, free healthcare, free energy, free everything. Website: https://capitalresearch.org/

Under the Universal Postal Union, China’s shipping is subsidized by the American taxpayer through the U.S. Postal Service, which loses billions of dollars every year. , It’s important our leaders understand the need for all international agreements to treat us with equal rates, in order to protect both free and fair trade.

The Left brands itself as the political force that wants to spread kindness and love into the world. But it’s easy to treat your friends well; one’s moral character is better judged by how they treat their enemies. In response to President Trump’s Twitter announcement that he had tested positive for COVID-19, there was a flood of tweets telling the president to drink bleach and/or die. And they weren’t limited to the cultural fringe; they came from mainstream voices on the Left. Website: https://capitalresearch.org/

Netflix and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman brought the crimes of the nation’s most prominent union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, back to public consciousness in a way they haven’t been since Hoffa’s disappearance in 1975. Much like at the end of the film, today’s generation has forgotten about Hoffa and the institutionalized corruption he represented. But while Hoffa is dead, labor union corruption lives on.

The National Education Association and The American Federation of Teachers aren’t just fighting for good teachers, they’re fighting for all their members, and that hurts kids. Watch our video on how 'Government Workers Unions Control Politics' here: https://youtu.be/vO_M4sIETh8 Read our article about teachers unions here: https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...

In May 2016, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was assuming regulatory power over electronic cigarettes. Will this improve American's health, or make it worse? The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen has the answer. If you liked this video, read the full article on our website, subscribe to us on YouTube, Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter. Full article: https://capitalresearch.org/2016/09/t...

How do you help a community bond and learn to care for itself? The Capital Research Center's Melodie J. Bowler shows us how community gardens can help teach self-sufficiency. If you liked this video, read the full article on our website, subscribe to us on YouTube, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/2016/09/c...

Do you like going to your favorite team’s games? You might—but regardless, you’re already paying for that ticket, you just don’t know it. That’s because the vast majority of stadiums are built using taxpayer money. Despite sports franchises being privately owned, team owners will negotiate with cities for huge subsidies to build stadiums.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization that has so succeeded in pushing bigots out of the mainstream, that now over 40 years after their founding, they need to constantly find new bigots inside the mainstream to fight against. When there aren’t many left, that means dangerously expanding who is called a bigot. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/g...

Most Americans know George Soros as a funder of a number of American left-wing movements such as Occupy Wall Street. But in fact, the billionaire’s goals have always been bigger than one country. See his work in Romania, where Soros trained activists managed to force the government to surrender. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/tag/soros...

Dr. Kristian Niemietz in his book "Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies" decided to look back in time to see what socialists had to say before the horrors of Communist nations became clear. What did he find? First leftists enthusiastically support the socialist experiment, then they defend it as bad news begins. Finally, only when failure is clear, do they declare it was never “real socialism”.

Research shows that search engines can manipulate people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions simply by changing the information that shows up. This includes the ability to change voting preferences and shift an election. How is this possible? It’s called the Search Engine Manipulation Effect. Learn More: https://capitalresearch.org/article/b...

The SEIU has a vested interest in enacting policies that will help them increase their membership and increase their dues collection, and they're willing to be aggressive to make those things happen. Full Article: https://www.influencewatch.org/labor-...

Go to climatedollars.org to learn more. The terms “Global Warming Skeptic” and “Climate Change Skeptic” are insults, but those who use this line of attack ignore that science only works when there are skeptics. The Capital Research Center's Dr. Steven J. Allen explains why argument, not anathemas, is the way to approach scientific issues surrounding climate changes.

With Tax Reform in the news, you’ll be hearing a lot about “flattening the tax code,” meaning in part getting rid of various deductions that benefit special interests. Let’s talk about one of the most important: SALT – the State and Local Tax Deduction. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...

The early version of the Black Panthers had some ideological similarities with the conservative movement today. Find out more at https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...

Agribusiness lobbyists have managed to influence politics to obtain massive government subsidies and rewrite regulations to benefit their clients at significant cost to average Americans. Full Article: https://capitalresearch.org/article/g... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresea... Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Parler: https://parler.com/profile/capitalres... LBRY/Odysee: https://odysee.com/@capitalresearch:5