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Powerless: How Top Foundations Failed to Defend Their Values—And Now Risk Losing Everything
David Callahan
Powerless: How Top Foundations Failed to Defend Their Values—And Now Risk Losing Everything
David Callahan

There are many reasons the right is ascendant and conservatives now dominate the Supreme Court. But one part of the story is the abject failure of mainstream foundations to fight back against a decades-long attack on everything they cherish.

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