If Congress does act to retroactively reinstate the donation rule, the gift will be excluded from income just as under the pre-2012 rule.

FORBES: The IRA Charitable Donation in 2012

In Galicia, there is still, just, a living memory of pre-1939 capitalism and the rule of law.

ECONOMIST: Ukraine

The four not-dead plaintiffs argue that there is no state-law authority for the purge and that because Texas has a history of voting-rights violations (not against the undead, but still), it was required by the federal Voting Rights Act to get pre-approval for the relevant rule change.

FORBES: "We're Not Dead," Plaintiffs Claim in Voting-Rights Lawsuit