Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Soros is the board chair of the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropy funded by his father, George Soros. AP ...

A bill that would empower the President to rescind the tax-exempt status of nonprofits threatens a deeply rooted aspect of civil society.

Civil society plays a central role in securing and upholding democratic governance worldwide. However, from Egypt to Russia, authoritarian governments are reverse engineering civil society’s tactics, ...

Last month I participated in a meeting of a dozen or so foundation leaders and think tankers. We spent two days grappling with, as the invitation put it, the “functions and dysfunctions of the present ...

Nonprofits play a vital role in advocating for justice, fostering accountability, and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Imagine a future where the government can shut down nonprofits, ...

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play a foundational role in any democracy. They give ordinary citizens a voice, promote accountability, and serve as watchdogs over the institutions that wield power ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming democracy and human rights across the globe at an unprecedented pace. Yet, it is governments and the private sector that dominate the conversation on AI, ...

In my job, I get to speak at a lot of fancy places. But the most important presentation I’ve given in recent memory was not a commencement address at a major university or a panel discussion at a ...

Autocrats desire a more autocratic world. A lack of transparency opens the door for greater corruption and kleptocracy and normalizes human rights violations. It also creates new international norms, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION) The New ...