The proposed ban on TikTok is a lesson in paradox and lobbying. As legislators like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) have pointed out, it’s about free speech…
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
In October 2023, the Giving Review published an updated list of possible subjects for future congressional committee hearings investigating philanthropy. The below list is revised and updated. It newly includes an additional subject—philanthropic…
U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald’s newly introduced STUDENT Act—the “Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today” Act—would, among other things, amend the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) federal charter to prohibit…
In her contribution to the Giving Review's symposium “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy,” Joanne Florino argues that the best way for conservative grantmakers to pursue their core…
After last month’s elections, the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives will shift from Democrats to Republicans in the Congress beginning next year, just as it did after…
Despite recapturing the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans were disappointed by the outcome of the midterm elections. Instead of a “red wave” sweeping GOP candidates into offices…
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance’s Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight has announced that it has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, May 4, to examine “Laws and Enforcement Governing…
Progressive and populist, and academic and popular, critiques of grantmaking certainly seem to be on the rise of late. These is an increasing intensity to them. Congressional curiosity, it sure…
Congress is periodically prone gazing at its own navel, and the latest example is a budding debate over whether congressional staff should unionize. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader…