The Nation

The reporting we cite

3 stories, each opening at its source.

• The Nation — Third Way: 'Majority of Our Financial Support' from Wall Street and business executives
• The Nation: Why MSNBC Is Freaking Out Over Bernie Sanders
• Prince Turki al-Faisal, address at Georgetown University (February 2002) — the first public acknowledgment of the Safari Club by a founding participant

Where their work appears on this site

• Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
• The Freakout →
• The Fake Opposition: the rented center and the Democrats who rescue the GOP. →
• Fake Opposition →
• Media Ownership →
• Return on Investment →
• The Dulles Blueprint →

How we graded the claims built on their work

4 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. 'Centrist / moderate': corporate, pharma, finance, and tech — and increasingly open about it.

   FACT
   Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →

2. Nicolle Wallace called Sanders’s coalition a ‘squeaky, angry minority’ and invoked the ‘dark arts.’

   FACT
   The Freakout →

3. The founding, September 1, 1976 — five signatories at Mount Kenya

   FACT
   The Dulles Blueprint →

4. These were a pattern, not isolated slips: a corporate ‘liberal’ network repeatedly cast a left insurgency as a threat.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   The Freakout →

5. Third Way’s board of trustees is overwhelmingly Wall Street finance.

   FACT
   The Fake Opposition: the rented center and the Democrats who rescue the GOP. →