Many were confused yesterday by a set of talking points that were posted on the Media Matters website that seemed to justify the federal seizure of AP phone records but…   

Is it skill or passion that makes a successful fundraiser?

A group opposing gay marriage believes that its donor names (including Mitt Romney) may have been leaked by IRS workers while ProPublica says it received confidential material regarding some applicants.

A struggle over possession of the archives left by Anne Frank and her family gets very ugly. 

Last week NPQ reported that Komen’s Nancy Brinker received a 64% increase in pay between the period covered by 2011 990 and that covered by the 2012. And now we see that lobbying expenditures for the first quarter of 2013 were almost nonexistent – what is going on there?

A local agency in North Carolina has created a comical video to raise awareness around zombie foreclosures.

The Department of Justice allegedly seized phone records for 20 office, home, and mobile phones connected to AP reporters and editors.

The Obama White House cannot be insulated from the ever-expanding IRS scandal. It is neither a political sideshow nor a tiny muck-up by low-level bureaucrats. Rather, it threatens a cornerstone of American democracy—political speech–and has the serious potential to derail public attention to and support for other elements of the Administration’s policy agenda such as health care, immigration reform, gun control, and tax reform. It should be a wake-up call for the White House and all of us that it is high time to come to grips with the mess of what has evolved into the current crop of 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations with almost entirely partisan electoral agendas programs and agendas with little or no interest in social welfare. Clean up the IRS for sure, but let’s also clean up the tax exempt sector of the surfeit of phony social welfare organizations too.  

Nonprofit Quarterly offers a roundup of the latest changes and news regarding the IRS targeting scandal.

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The firestorm unleashed by Friday’s admission by IRS officials that the agency had targeted some applications for tax-exempt recognition based on political keywords like “conservative” and “Tea Party” continues.