How Far Does It Go? The Wider History of Nonprofits Paying Informants Inside Extremist Groups The April 21, 2026 federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has prompted a broader question that reaches well beyond a single organization: how widespread is the practice of advocacy nonprofits paying confidential informants inside the groups they publicly...
A network of progressive influencers funded through a nonprofit tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in political spending is now under congressional scrutiny, raising new questions about disclosure rules in the digital media economy. A 2025 investigation by Wired found that more than 90 social media creators were recruited and paid through a program...
A federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center is testing the legal boundaries of how nonprofits operate behind the scenes—and how much they must disclose to donors. Prosecutors say the organization secretly routed more than $3 million to informants embedded inside extremist groups. The nonprofit says those activities were part of legitimate investigative work....
After more than a decade of credibility problems, the global market for carbon credits has entered a markedly different phase in 2026. New international accounting rules under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, a maturing quality standard from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), and deeper liquidity on commodity exchanges have begun...
Why Do Immigrants Appear to Get Preferential Treatment in American and British Courts? An Investigative Analysis | NexfinityNews Any serious discussion of “two-tier justice” eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable question, and most commentators retreat before they ask it out loud. We will not retreat. Across two of the oldest common-law democracies in the world...
Fairfax County Schools Remove Veterans Day From Student Calendar Starting 2026-2027 In the 250th year of the American republic, the largest school district in Virginia voted 8-1 to make November 11 a regular instructional day, while keeping Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Nowruz, Lunar New Year, and Orthodox Easter on the...
Introduction President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 18, 2026, directing the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate its review of certain psychedelic compounds, including ibogaine, for the treatment of serious mental illness. The order marks the first time the federal government has formally moved to expedite ibogaine FDA approval, a development that...
Introduction The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has opened an investigation into a series of large, well-timed oil futures trades that preceded two major Trump administration announcements on Iran, according to reporting by Bloomberg News and Reuters. The CFTC oil futures investigation centers on roughly $1.45 billion in positions placed on crude oil contracts...
Introduction In 2024, grid operators across the United States curtailed approximately 20 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity generated from wind and solar sources — energy that was produced but could not be stored or delivered to consumers because the infrastructure to hold it did not exist. Four of the country’s seven major Independent System Operators...
An analysis of Aboriginal title law, the Musqueam rights agreement, the Cowichan court decision, and what unsettled land claims mean for mortgages, property taxes, and economic stability across British Columbia. On January 31, 2028, a mobile home community in Comox, British Columbia will close. The Queneesh Mobile Home Park — a 55-plus community of approximately...