It’s been a week since the bombshell admission by IRS Exempt Organizations (EO) Director Lois Lerner that the IRS had targeted for special scrutiny conservative groups seeking tax-exempt recognition under Section 501(c)4 of the Internal Revenue Code. NPQ has been reporting on this all week, and the story has moved so fast that the Treasury Department investigation report that precipitated the furor has almost been lost in the rush.

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

Buy the building and keep the name? The YMCA begs to disagree.

An unusual Alabama law threatens the operation of nonprofit spay/neuter clinics…and a new bill in the state senate could make things worse.

The ability for same-sex couples to sponsor foreign-born partners for green cards may be the sticking point for the immigration bill.

In a stand against homophobic activity elsewhere, Palo Alto Human Relations Commissioner Ezran asks to deny CDBG funds to Catholic Charities.

The Cy Twombly Foundation promotes the reputation and art of the post-abstract-expressionist painter, but its own reputation has been challenged by a new lawsuit.

Missouri and Kansas are weighing “paycheck protection” legislation that restricts unions’ dues collection capacity. This trend could easily expand to include paycheck deductions for charities.

After a successful legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Colorado Springs opts to abandon its controversial “no solicitation zone” policy for the city’s downtown area.

After founding a nonprofit to advance “common sense” gun control, Mark Kelly, the husband of mass shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, demonstrates how easy it is to buy an assault weapon.

Now that Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will no longer be running the Grameen Bank, can Grameen survive?

James O’Keefe, who you may remember for the undercover video work that triggered ACORN’s demise, settles a lawsuit that indicates O’Keefe left out an important part of the ACORN story.

Did you know that a volunteer town committee member in Massachusetts is considered a local government “employee” under state ethics rules? Neither did Pine DuBois.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledges that the Justice Department views some banks and bankers as too big to jail.

In Colorado and Washington, voters have outright legalized marijuana for recreational use, enabling what could be a lucrative market—if the federal government doesn’t nix it.

Explaining his support for military-style assault weapons, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) mentions his fear that society is one cyber attack or natural disaster away from total chaos.

As hundreds of business sign brief asking the Supreme Court to find the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, have we arrived at a tipping point of cultural change?

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has taken heat for comparing the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to its Dred Scott decision, but it seems clear what he did—and didn’t—mean.

Is there a regime of corporate social responsibility for law firms?

The Supreme Court has refused to consider a case challenging the century-old ban on corporate contributions to political candidates, though they didn’t explain their reasoning.

Franz Kafka would have had difficulty designing a political and bureaucratic stalemate as deft as the Republicans’ rejection of any activity to help the Affordable Care Act meet its goals.

In one of the worst end results from celebrity charity we’ve seen, a headline in USA TODAY reads, “Andy Roddick sues cancer charity for unpaid appearance fee.”

What is “social welfare?” This past election cycle, a slew of 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations bombarded the nation with anonymously funded campaign ads. A new lawsuit says the IRS shouldn’t have allowed this.

The European Union has eased sanctions on Zimbabwe in hopes of fair elections, but recent reports point to police raids against NGOs promoting voter education and reform.

An array of nonprofit groups have filed friend of the court briefs for both sides in a case about seeds and patents that hit the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded a record $20 billion in nonprofit hospital debt in 2012, citing concerns about reimbursement rates, slow insurance payment rates and other issues.

This may be the future: a politically controlled archipelago of chapters of a nonprofit that originated in the White House and that is prepared to push for the president’s State of the Union agenda.

Can employers base employment decisions such as hiring and firing on off-duty, legal marijuana use in states where such actions are now legal? The law is murky and evolving.

The Marine Stewardship Council sought to create demand for sustainable fishing certifications. Now it can’t keep up with demand. Has it lowered its standards as a result?

The term “education reform” has often been branded as a kind of reform associated with charter schools and high-stakes testing, but there are other means of education reform.