In 1995 William Ayers appointed Barack Obama as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which aimed to infuse students with a radical political commitment and emphasized social activism far more than academic achievement and test scores.

Deir Yassin Remembered is a nonprofit organization that condemns Israeli “apartheid” and asserts, falsely, that in April 1948 Jews engaged in the “systematic murder” of innocent civilians in Deir Yassin, a Palestinian-Arab village near Jerusalem.  

The U.S. Peace Council was originally launched as a Soviet front, for the purpose of blaming American “war-mongering” for all the tensions of the Cold War.

Teaching For Change co-sponsors an education project modeled on the writings of the late Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, a Marxist tract that describes America as a predatory, repressive, racist nation.

Pax Christi USA views the United States as a nation that scapegoats Muslims and nonwhite immigrants, a land of inequitable wealth distribution, and a snake pit of “systemic racism” and “white skin privilege.”

After three decades in Congress, Rep. Barney Frank, the very embodiment of modern leftism, has announced that he will retire after completing his current term.

The Catholic Worker Movement condemns capitalism for “pitting owners against workers,” “widening the gap between rich and poor,” and infecting the human heart with “spiritual destitution.”

Founded by a former professor who portrays Israel as “a racist, apartheid state,” the website RighteousJews.org praises Jews who believe that Palestinians are being “humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism.”

With his deep socialist ties, United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard is delighted to be called the ”No. 1 scourge of free traders.”