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Until the River Runs Dry

Every year, wealthy donors divert more money into intermediaries, drying up the river of donations meant for working charities. We can change that.

The First Trillionaire: No Cause for Celebration

We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.

Garbage In, Garbage CEO Windfalls Out

‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules

There's No Debate Over Debt—Only About Priorities

If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?

The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class

If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.

Report Reveals Top CEOs Dodge Taxes on Nearly $9 Billion in Retirement Funds

Some executives can expect to receive monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.

Raise the Debt Ceiling, and Invest in America

The debt ceiling is an arcane artifice without a real connection to the economy. But how well we invest in our families and workers directly relates to it.

How to Rapidly Reduce Fossil Fuel Use

Hint: rationing is a better approach than markets.

Reports and Resources

  • Unveiling Truth and Inspiring Change – Survivors Uncensored Lunch & Book Discussion

    June 5 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm at Institute for Policy Studies

    A hybrid event with testimonies from survivors of atrocities in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and African Great Lakes region as a whole, shedding light on the role of the U.S. and the West.

  • The 2023 Marcus Raskin Award for Civic and Intellectual Courage

    June 8 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm at James Madison Memorial Building, Library of Congress

    The Institute for Policy Studies and the Raskin Family cordially invite you to join this special program commemorating Marc’s legacy and celebrating the work of Katrina vanden Heuvel.

  • Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level

    June 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm at Zoom Webinar

    A webinar with three experts and activists on the successes of opposing mining and the implementation options at the international level.

  • Book Event: Altar to an Erupting Sun

    July 20 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at Busboys & Poets – 14th & V

    Busboys and Poets host Chuck Collins, co-editor of IPS’s Inequality.org, for the DC release of his a new novel.

  • 47th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

    October 12 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm at Friends Meeting of Washington, DC

    Please join us at the 47th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards as IPS honors two outstanding champions of human rights and celebrates the work we do along with our allies to advance justice, peace, and dignity for all.

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