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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Person
Dr. Michael Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Following the 2020 presidential election, he was tapped by then-President-elect Joe Biden to be a member of his
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Government Agency
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) which holds an annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHA elects the director general of the WHO, determines policies, and allocates its budget. The WHA currently has 194 members. In May 2022, the WHA met
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Other Group
The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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For-profit
Blue Star Strategies is a Democratic firm that lobbies on behalf of many companies and nonprofit organizations in the United States and internationally. The firm is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has international offices in Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Vienna. The firm is led by former Clinton administration
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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Nominations and Appointments Wally Adeyemo is Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He had served most recently as President of the Obama Foundation since August 2019. Before that, he was a Senior
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of State. Nominations and Appointments Yohannes Abraham is Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, having previously been Chief of Staff at the U.S. National Security Council.
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Person
Antony Blinken is a Democratic foreign-policy operative and U.S. Secretary of State in the Biden administration. 1 He started his career in 1993 in the
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Non-profit
The American Action Forum (AAF) is a right-of-center think tank that promotes Republican-aligned public policy priorities. The organization was founded in 2009 and is affiliated with the American Action Network, an organization that runs ads supportive of Republican congressional candidates. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who held several senior
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Non-profit
Evergreen Action is a left-of-center climate change advocacy group founded by former staffers of the 2020 presidential campaign of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D). It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting firm Arabella
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Person
Also see Sea Change Foundation (Nonprofit) Nathaniel “Nat” Simons is a billionaire, hedge fund manager, and major donor to left-of-center causes and organizations, much of it through the Sea Change Foundation, a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation he co-founded in 2006 with his wife, Laura Baxter-Simons.
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Person
Ron Unz is a financially successful former investment industry and software entrepreneur. Since 2013, he has been the publisher of the Unz Review, a website notable for spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, especially about U.S. policies related to Israel and the Middle East. Unz Review writers, including Unz himself, have
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Person
Alexander Soros is the son of finance billionaire and political mega-donor George Soros and deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations, his father’s left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. 1
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Non-profit
The Oak Foundation (and its U.S. affiliate Oak Foundation USA) is a left-leaning environmentalist grantmaking foundation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Oak Foundation was formed in 1983 and maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bulgaria, India, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.
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Non-profit
The Fund for Justice and Education (FJE) is a subsidiary organization of the American Bar Association (ABA). Formed as an entity that would allow the ABA to raise funds from public and private organizations, as well as individuals, the FJE funds and runs various special projects for the ABA,
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Non-profit
The Trilateral Commission is an invitation-only, international non-governmental organization that was founded by David Rockefeller, Sr., in July 1973, to foster closer cooperation among nations in North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
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Non-profit
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that investigates and analyzes economic issues. NBER makes its research findings available to the public, academics, and decision makers in both public and private sectors through its working papers and scholarly conferences.
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Non-profit
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonprofit think-tank founded in 1972 by Willy Brandt, at the time West German Chancellor and leader of the left-progressive Social Democratic Party (SDP).
