Mouthy Moguls: Our Latest Disappearing Species
What do America’s billionaires feel about the burning issues of the day? They’d rather not say — in public.
The World Would Be a Better Place Without the Rich
They coarsen our culture, erode our economic future, and diminish our democracy. The ultra-rich have no redeeming social value.
How the Rich Exploit Charitable Giving Rules to Hoard Their Fortunes
As taxpayers, we need to know whether a donation actually makes it to a charitable cause.
What’s Happening to Charitable Giving in This Country?
The rich are claiming substantial tax benefits through shady donor-advised funds. How are they getting away with it?
Report: Warehousing Wealth
Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality
Where Rich People Should Have Gone Instead of Davos: Home
If they want to save the world, people of means should invest in their own communities, pay their taxes, and support social movements.
Now Eric Trump is Accused of Stealing from a Cancer Charity
Just another chapter in the weird stories of the first family.
Perils of Top-Heavy Philanthropy
Charities are increasingly reliant on larger donations from a smaller number of high net-worth donors.
When Billionaires Dominate Philanthropy
Unchecked, private foundations can become blocks of concentrated unaccountable power with considerable clout in shaping our laws and culture.
New IPS Report Warns of Increasingly Top-Heavy Philanthropy
Concentrated Giving by Wealthy Donors along with Falling Donations by Non-Wealthy Pose Risks to Independent Sector and Civil Society
Report: Gilded Giving
Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Blowing the Whistle on Philanthropy
A scion of one of America’s top fortunes has just exposed our “charitable-industrial complex.”
The Art of Inequality
Monumental gifts to museums are coinciding with the erosion of arts programs at the nation’s public schools.
Plutocracy with a Pleasant Philanthropic Face
Not all plutocrats scheme in the shadows like the rabidly right-wing Koch brothers. We need to learn how to recognize plutocracy’s more subtle putches. The best primer? The battle over education’s future.
Finally, Obama’s Talking about Taxing the Wealthy
He has public opinion on his side.