Pits and falls of donor-advised funds By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Ray Madoff is a Boston College law professor…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] “Clinton Shaming Trump for His Alleged ‘Miss Piggy’ Comment Was Maybe Her Best Moment,” proclaimed the online magazine Slate. After…
In my conversation with the co-founder of the Turkey Thicket Gardeners Association, I expected to learn about how to create a community garden, the challenges of dealing with government…
(originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Suppose you run a restaurant that many food and wine magazines rate the world’s best, a place where you have to wait six months for…
This article is part of the Organization Trends series. At the time of this writing, prosecutors had just dropped charges against the last three of six police…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] The so-called “birther” story—the claim that President Obama was born outside the U.S. and is not a “natural born Citizen,”…
Avoiding drama after death By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) One of the reasons I write about donor intent is that…
This article is part of the Green Watch series. Summary: Bureaucrats and politicians often cite “science” as justification for their efforts to exercise control over Americans’ lives. It’s a fake, politicized “science,” of…
Clinton, Trump and their philanthropies By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) One of the many points of similarity between Hillary Clinton…