This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At Animal Charity Evaluators, our focus is on identifying the most effective ways to help animals. To follow through with this mandate, we believe it is necessary for the animal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some reports suggest that President Trump has finally decided to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement after many weeks of a back and forth administration tug-of-war. Trump himself…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some people view compassion as weakness or passivity, but this is a misunderstanding. Some of the strongest and most courageous people in history, the most engaged and dedicated to upholding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We understand the sentiment that “charity starts at home,” and we used to agree with it—until we learned just how different U.S. charity is from charity aimed at the poorest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When your job centers on helping funders assess needs, devise strategies, and manage and evaluate their grantmaking, you wish that every field would have a resource like “Advancing Human Rights:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Crisis situations — from acute shocks to chronic stresses — often illuminate each sector’s skills, pressures, requirements and need for nuance. For example, philanthropy’s flexibility and ability to act fast…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I publish a lot of posts about school choice — the movement to offer alternatives to traditional public schools — and consequences of choice policies, but this is a little…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A conversation with a former director of the agency on the American Health Care Act vote and how health-care legislation is appraised by the federal government. The American Health Care…
Should school reform come from the courts? While examples from California and New Jersey seem to indicate that judges can be instrumental in changing school systems, AEI’s Rick Hess cautions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jimmy Kimmel was already near tears before he said a word on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live—his first episode hosting the late-night show after it went on a mysterious weeklong…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Trump’s “America First” federal budget proposes drastic cuts or the outright elimination of many programs that support the socially and economically disadvantaged; scientific and health research; education; and, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Those on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans — all billionaires, not counting the 100 or so billionaires who didn’t make the cut — have wealth greater than…