The New York Times has a good article about how 501(c)4 organizations are increasingly being utilized to influence elections by donors who appreciate that they are exempt from disclosure, but the piece is receiving criticism from some lawyers for perpetuating a popular misconception that could embolden some groups to jeopardize More…
Following up on the complaint lodged with the IRS by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee against the Americans for Prosperity Foundation — leaked to the New York Times on Friday — Loyola tax law professor Ellen Aprill weighs in.
Following up on the ethics committee’s organizational meeting, in which they officially laid out the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), The New York Times writes that the committee’s 40-page report substantiated the four major charges against him — improper solicitation of donations for a school named in More…
The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking “the right to poison the political atmosphere without being held accountable for their speech.” That said, the Times also noted that the bill’s supporters didn’t help their cause by tacking on a More…
Kirk Johnson has a piece in Saturday’s New York Times that hints at divisions among conservative groups as to whether to support Judge Joseph L. Tauro’s ruling last Thursday that a Massachusetts state law allowing same-sex marriage should take precedence over the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):
The New York Times and CoreLogic examined the data, and found that the rich are more likely to purposefully default on their mortgages — to “strategically default” — than lower-income homeowners:
More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent,
The core inflation rate is holding steady at 0.9 percent, the lowest rate in 44 years. The United States actually experienced a month of deflation in April. Still, yesterday, The New York Times felt it fitting to warn that the Federal Reserve — all too aware of the above More…
University of Chicago economist and New York Times Economix contributor Casey Mulligan does not really believe there was a housing bubble. He has written a number of perplexing blog posts to back up his case. And now: this.
Mulligan writes: “Housing bubble theorists will offer you a list More…
Can’t figure out why an increasing number of Americans doubt the threat of climate change? Well, check out where they’re getting their information.
From John Horgan in Scientific American:
Two sources at the Science Times section of the New York Times have told me that a majority of
We’d already set aside the January 2010 deadline for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay that President Obama set on his first day in office. But now the administration is acknowledging that it probably won’t close the prison down until 2011 — at the earliest.
While funding is the More…
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