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TIGTA, Statistical Trends of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division Through Fiscal Year 2025
Last month the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration published a report titled Statistical Trends of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division Through Fiscal Year 2025. From the “What TIGTA Found” section: New legislation and executive...
The Economist Calls for Ending Charity Donation Tax Breaks
Late last month, The Economist published an opinion piece titled Tax breaks for charity donations should be scrapped (subscription required). Here are the first three paragraphs: Over more than 20 years Sheldon Solow, an American property billionaire who died in 2020,...
College Athletics & Nonprofits
On the first full weekend of college football, it is appropriate to highlight a recent Associate Press article titled Cash-hungry college sports programs are starting nonprofits to make money to stay competitive. Here are the first four paragraphs: University of...
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 31, 2026 to September 4, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC announced that September 24 is the deadline for...
Less Salmonella, Worse Salmonella: Six Years After Our Petition, There Is Still Work to Do
The New Lede reported last week on a Farm Forward analysis of USDA sampling data that ought to end a long-running argument about how we measure progress on Salmonella in poultry. Between 2014 and 2025, three serotypes — Infantis, Enteritidis and...
The 2023 to 2025 ByHeart Infant Formula Outbreak
Extraordinary Circumstances Infant botulism is normally sporadic; most cases involve one infant, one household, and no single identified commercial source. Bacterial spores are widely present in soil and dust around the country and therefore may cause sporadic, random...
Soskis, Prudential Pluralism, Historical Perspective, and the Defense of Civil Society
Benjamin Soskis (co-editor HistPhil) haas posted an essay titled Prudential Pluralism, Historical Perspective, and the Defense of Civil Society. Here are the opening paragraphs: If this is a time of peril for U.S. civil society, it is also a time that has established...
Florino, What Happens to Endowments When Institutions Fail?
Joanne Florino (Philanthropy Roundtable) has written an essay titled What Happens to Endowments When Institutions Fail? From the Philanthropy Roundtable introduction to the essay: In the August 2026 issue of Planned Giving Today, Philanthropy Roundtable’s Adam...
Cyclospora 2026: The Season Closed, Nobody Answered, and Nobody Called a Hearing. What Is Left Is 18,445 Confirmed Cases, 990 Hospitalizations and Two Dead.
The 2026 cyclosporiasis season closed on August 31. Between July 14 and August 13, thirteen letters went from members of the House and Senate to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the acting heads of FDA and CDC, and twice to the chief executive of...