Felix Salmon's posts

In the wake of the FT’s bombshell report about the Presidents Club annual dinner, WPP’s Martin Sorrell has announced…

In April 2014, the Gates Foundation, as part of its charitable activities, wrote a $51 million check to the…

Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of the definitive financial crisis tick-tock, should know what a firestorm is. But when…

Met Museum president Daniel Weiss gave an interview to Hyperallergic explaining why he’s being forced to implement a…

Every so often, a charitable donation comes along which is so atrocious, on so many levels, that it deserves to be…

Well, no one saw this coming. (Least of all myself; indeed, I said two years ago that it would never happen.) So,…

Donor-advised funds, or DAFs, are the duck-billed platypus of the philanthropic world: a very weird creature that…

Big asset managers aren’t scary. Neither is passive investment.

I had a fascinating conversation a couple of days ago with Charlie Bresler, the executive director of The Life You…

Ray Madoff’s NYT op-ed, entitled “Congress’s Assault on Charities,” has been garnering praise from luminaries like Be…

Charity comes from a deeply human place: When we see others in trouble, most of us want to help out if we can. It’s n…

I’ve been clear for some months now that I consider the Berkshire Museum’s current deaccessioning plan to be a very,…

The fight against inequality is probably going to be the defining fight of the 21st Century. For all that equality…

File under “ask and you shall receive”: GiveDirectly is setting up shop in Houston!

All of the most valuable art has left the Berkshire Museum. It’s currently in the possession of Sotheby’s, and…

After Charles Kenny agreed with me that public-health aid should be run through governments rather than non-governmen…

Puerto Rico, today, is in the worst crisis that America has seen in living memory. Millions of Americans on the…

I spent Tuesday at a fascinating conference* in Silicon Valley, which came complete with roughly the level of…

What would you say if I were to tell you that you could make the world a better place by spending an extra $1,500 a…