New York Times Giving Section

Today’s New York Times features the annual giving section. The front page of the section (in the old paper version)* includes articles by David Cay Johnston, Joe Nocera and Stephanie Strom. Johnston and Nocera are two of my favorite current and former columnists. Strom takes on the unenviable task of trying to nail down the [...]

Stirred, not shaken

James Bond was known for preferring his martinis “shaken, not stirred.” Stephanie Strom’s article in Monday’s Times on states’ pursuits of taxes on presumed tax-exempt organizations raises some important questions about when things blur, rather than blend (or get shaken rather than stirred). 1. Here is the NYT article, “Tax Exemptions of Charities Raise New [...]