exempt

From other media outlets, state attorneys general, and state legislators.

The Brandeis University professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about differences in the two parties’ policy networks, corporate support of both networks, and how to consider improving the research product available to policymakers and the public, including by strengthening parties.

The Brandeis University professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about how so many think tanks have become partisan political organizations, including the role of their funding in the process.

Aggressive oversight—not new laws—may be the only way to curb the growing use of charitable dollars for political ends.

The investigative reporter talks to Michael E. Hartmann about more factors surrounding potential policy reform regarding nonprofit flows of money in the business of college sports, along with newer and likely forthcoming flows of that money, whether nonprofit or otherwise.

The tax-policy expert talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the broad way in which tax neutrality should be applied to charitable nonprofits’ business income, as well as the benefits to economic growth of doing so.

The tax-policy expert talks to Michael E. Hartmann about reigning in America’s $3.3 trillion tax-exempt economy by narrowing the tax code’s definition of “public charity” and subjecting supposedly charitable nonprofitdom to tax neutrality.

A mid-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.