Writing Portfolio

 
 

How Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard Fund Hate Groups

The New Republic

Charities affiliated with major investment banks allow anonymous donors to give millions of dollars to anti-LGBTQ and racist groups—and get a tax break for it.

 

Donors Pumped Millions into White Nationalist Group

Southern Poverty Law Center

Donors gave the prominent white nationalist hate group VDARE $4.3 million in 2019, over eight times more than the year before, according to tax records the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) obtained and shared with Hatewatch.

 

Revealed: how US senators invest in firms they are supposed to regulate

The Guardian

Analysis of financial disclosure data shows 51 senators and their spouses have as much as $96m invested in corporate stocks

 

How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students

The Nation

The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.

 

America’s Biggest Charities Bankrolled RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Outfit

Rolling Stone

Children’s Health Defense and other groups promoting vaccine misinformation discreetly raked in money from anonymous donors through some of the largest charities in the country

 

West Virginia Gas Companies Wined and Dined Lawmakers Before Scoring Favorable Fracking Legislation

DeSmog

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars’ worth of food and drink throughout 2017