Casey Michel’s Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy around the World explores the growing problem of foreign funding of U.S. nonprofits in order to exert political influence. Addressing this issue might be the best initial opportunity for cross-ideological, bipartisan cooperation toward meaningful nonprofit-sector reform—perhaps leading to broad­er, bolder efforts against Big Philanthropy and its increasingly stretched definitions of charity...

Casey Michel’s Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy around the World explores that last item, the growing problem of foreign funding of U.S. nonprofits in order to exert political influence.2 Addressing this issue might be the best initial opportunity for cross-ideological, bipartisan cooperation toward meaningful nonprofit-sector reform—perhaps leading to broad­er, bolder efforts against Big Philanthropy and its increasingly stretched definitions of charity.