I had the great good luck, last week, to sit down at a roundtable hosted by the Pew Research Center and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, with some of today’s pioneers in nonprofit-based digital journalism.

Not only will federal employees and national parks be impacted by the government shutdown—nonprofits will, too.

Yale may be #2 in terms of endowment size among the Ivy League and universities in general, but the $250 million gift it announced this week and its earning rate on investments suggests that it is among the soundly “recovering.”

In nine Indian law cases heard by the Rehnquist Court, tribes won four, lost three, and had two draws. With ten Indian law cases heard by the Roberts Court, the tribes have lost nine out of ten. Is it time for Native Americans to steer clear of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Russian election monitor NGO Golos has been closed by the Russian government for failing to register under the “foreign agent” law.

Ted Cruz pledges his potential shutdown paycheck to charity. Isn’t that nice?

Thousands of children across 20 states lost access to Head Start on Tuesday as a result of the government shutdown.

Will the Affordable Care Act actually yield positive changes in the lives and health of the uninsured? Republicans say, “Not a chance.” Democrats say, “Of course.” Now, the Kaiser Family Foundation is going to track 2,000 uninsured Californians over a long period of time to determine exactly who benefits—and how—and who does not.

If this simple statement is true, the implications are far more serious than are ever acknowledged.

If you haven’t read quite enough about the stalemate between the House, the Senate, and the White House over the FY2014 continuing resolution, here’s our take on the nightmare scenario for nonprofits that could result from a budget shutdown. As you’re reading this, however, they’ve surely reached a budget deal—haven’t they? Yes? No? Really? No, apparently not.

Do sports leagues and similarly wealthy marketing-oriented organizations hide under nonprofit status in order to avoid paying federal taxes?

Doug Rauch’s Daily Table Project is a nonprofit dedicated to taking food that would otherwise be thrown away from grocery stores and converting it into cheap meals for the poor.