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Our Skyrocketing Military Spending Helps Pentagon Contractors—Not Ukraine
Less than one percent of the Pentagon’s new $782 billion budget is marked for Kyiv. About 50 times as much will go to for-profit corporations.
Ukraine War Is a Wake-up Call to Ditch Oil and Gas Forever
More drilling doesn’t add up to lower prices anytime soon—it just locks in more carbon. Here’s what to do instead.
Biden Budget Takes a Step Toward Corralling Out-Of-Control CEO Pay
Administration proposal would restrict insider trades, and impose a tax on stock buybacks that largely benefit the fat cats.
Say No to a ‘No-Fly Zone’ in Ukraine
Rather than cheering for a potentially catastrophic escalation, there are other options for the United States to help the Ukrainian people.
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Elon Musk Is Hiding the Ball Again on Taxes
Clarence Thomas’ Conflicts Put Our Whole Constitutional System at Risk
Don’t Give Up on Taxing Billionaires
Is Joe Biden Channeling Tom Paine?
Closing the Loopholes America’s Super Rich Love: Can the Dog Catch Its Tail?
The Five Plagues Testing Humanity
It's Farmworker Awareness Week. Here’s What Those Who Feed Us Deserve.
Reports and Resources
How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
Fact Sheet: A Moral Budget Versus a War Budget
New Mexico’s Case for Public Ownership of its Clean Energy Infrastructure
The U.S. Green New Deal: Promises, Policies, and Prospects
April 12 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Zoom WebinarThree experts will look at what the Biden administration has done, hasn’t done, and still could do to implement transformative climate action towards a Green New Deal in the United States.
Virtual Book Event – Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism
April 20 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at Online Zoom EventJoin the Institute for Policy Studies, Food and Water Watch, Greenpeace USA, Public Citizen, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and the Wallace Global Fund for a conversation with Maude Barlow, on the release of her new book about her lifetime of fighting the good fight and often winnin...
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