Tag: Philanthropy and nonprofits
While the US government is investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, academic researchers...
Darrell Evans, Purdue University
President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon and other federal agencies to begin releasing government files...
Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025...
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Hans Peter Schmitz, North Carolina State University, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University -...
Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case...
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University
Economist Larry Summers will resign from his tenured job as a professor...
From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
Throughout the 20th century, college and university presidents spoke out on everything, from wars to...
50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
John J. Martin, Quinnipiac University
In 2024, spending on federal elections totaled almost US$15 billion in the United States....
Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up...
Shelly Tygielski, Indiana University and Pamala Wiepking, Indiana University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Have you ever received some money through...
Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding...
Brian Herman, University of Minnesota
Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the...
OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and...
Alnoor Ebrahim, Tufts University
OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
