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October 11, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Melania Trump Faces Uproar After Being Caught in Fake Charity Scandal
It turns out Melania Trump is a grifter just like her husband.
April 30, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
In Shock to No One, George Santos’s Charitable Effort Doesn’t Add Up
Santos says he wants to raise money for a charity. There’s just one problem.
December 8, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
SantaCon Isn’t Just Obnoxious
It’s also reportedly a bit of a scam.
November 18, 2023
Jason Linkins
Billionaire Philanthropy Is a Scam
A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.
August 9, 2023
Alex Kotch
How Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard Fund Hate Groups
Charities affiliated with major investment banks allow anonymous donors to give millions of dollars to anti-LGBTQ and racist groups—and get a tax break for it.
August 29, 2022
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Jasper Craven
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Scammy Nonprofit
The IRS has lost its ability to investigate tax-exempt organizations. What will that mean for our political system?
July 17, 2020
J.C. Pan
Will Big Philanthropy Defang Our Radical Moment?
The Open Society Foundations and other massive organizations have pledged to support Black-led racial justice work. Is that a blessing or a curse?
October 18, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: The Sacklers
Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.
June 6, 2017
Graham Vyse
We have a new contestant in the lowest thing Donald Trump has allegedly ever done.
June 28, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is this why Donald Trump won’t release his tax returns?
December 14, 2015
Theodore Ross
Full disclosure, Donald Trump gave a lot of money to my old high school.
November 30, 2015
Judith Lichtenberg
Peter Singer’s Extremely Altruistic Heirs
Forty years after it was written, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” has spawned a radical new movement.
February 5, 2015
Nathan J. Robinson
No One Should Have to Walk 21 Miles to Work
A Detroit man's awful commute epitomizes America's broken policies.
November 18, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Stop Trying to Save the World
Big ideas are destroying international development
June 23, 2014
Danny Vinik
Rich Russians Believe Charity Is More Important Than Rich Americans Do
February 26, 1977
Michael Harrington
Hiding the Other America
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