Private foundations are currently allowed to make grants to donor-advised funds, or DAFs, and to count those grants toward their charitable distribution requirement of 5 percent of their assets each year.

The Supreme Court is erasing our shared responsibility for educating each and every child.

IPS Executive Director Tope Folarin and Chuck Collins explore how can fiction shape new narratives for the future.

When ultra-wealthy donors dominate philanthropy, our charities are less resilient.

Institute for Policy Studies Executive Director Tope Folarin and Chuck Collins were both were inspired by Ursula K. LeGuin to write fiction novels. Together they explore how can fiction shape new narratives for the future.

New fact sheets by the Poor People’s Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S. state.

We praise charity efforts to combat climate change in countries like Bangladesh as generous, without critiquing why they are made necessary in the first place.

But who set the stage for that billionaire?

A new state tax on the wheeling and dealing of the wealthy is reaping far more revenue than expected

We have the right to know what Exxon officials knew—and when they knew it.

Every year, wealthy donors divert more money into intermediaries, drying up the river of donations meant for working charities. We can change that.

FDR put the kibosh on military contractor windfalls during World War II. We could do the same.

We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.

‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules

If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.

Some executives can expect to receive monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.

Our tax code helps CEOs retire in luxury while ordinary workers struggle. Here’s how to fix it.

A slate of new bills signed by Florida’s billionaire-friendly governor will make it harder for public sector unions to collect dues, worsening the state’s teacher shortage and public school funding.

A century-old political lesson from the first grand champion of America’s kids.

Wherever one stands on the independence vs. accommodation spectrum in Taiwan, everyone should agree that a U.S.-China war is in nobody’s interest.