Zuckerbucks
In 2020, at the peak of COVID, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan gave over $400 million to election groups with relatively benign-sounding names …
Common Terms
Normalcy bias
A cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings.1 Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, …
Think Tank
A research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental organizations, …
Pay to play
In politics, it refers to a systematic form of corruption in which businessmen are expected to give campaign donations in exchange for state government contracts. …
Anti-Semitism
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry written by Michael Berenbaum, the term was originally coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1897 to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central …
Compartmentalization
A divide and conquer technique in the area of information; project secrecy is promoted by strict segregation of the available information. An abstract example may …
Money laundering
The act of funneling money from an illegal venture through legitimate businesses in order to obscure the original source of the money. Money laundering was made illegal in …
Fraud
Intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right; an act of deceiving …
Cover Up
an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information. In a passive cover-up, information is simply not provided; in an active …
Let them eat cake!
The phrase lives in infamy as the privileged retort from Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI’s wife and the Queen of France during the French Revolution, …