Phil Knight’s Billion-Dollar Philanthropy: Generosity or Self-Service?
New revelations about the Nike founder’s tax-dodging schemes raise questions about his charitable giving.
Phil Knight’s Big Tax Dodge: A Q&A With Tax Attorney Bob Lord
The veteran tax attorney unraveled Nike founder Phil Knight’s tax avoidance schemes for a recent Bloomberg investigation. He sits down with Chuck Collins to explain how this is possible under existing tax law — and what should change.
Can We Avoid a War With China?
The cold war in the Taiwan Strait threatens to turn hot.
5 Charts on Taxing Wealth to Pay for the Build Back Better Agenda
Proposals in play to pay for the ambitious public investment plan could help reverse skyrocketing wealth inequality.
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic.
Sen. Wyden’s billionaires income tax tapping those huge returns could raise big revenue to fund President Biden’s Build Back Better investment plan.
5 Charts on Tackling Bad Corporate Behavior Through Taxes
Proposals on the table to pay for the Build Back Better Act could rein in offshoring, excessive CEO pay, and wasteful stock buybacks.
Don’t Cut Care
Aging and disabled Americans — and the workers who care for them — have a huge stake in federal budget negotiations.
The Embarrassment of Riches
The wealthy rob governments of at least $200 billion a year in lost tax revenues. It’s time to force them to pay up.
IPS climate policy expert Basav Sen available for comment on federal interagency plan on climate threats and adaptation
“The DHS approach to climate-driven displacement is the moral equivalent of an arsonist burning down a house and then refusing shelter to its residents.”
Forget the Huddled Masses. Bring Us Billionaires.
The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.
IPS Celebrates the Life of former IPS Board Chair Frances “Sissy” Farenthold (1926-2021)
Sissy Farenthold was a dynamic trailblazer in every sense of the word. We celebrate her courage, her activism, her public service, her championing of women, and her humor.
Remembering Frances “Sissy” Farenthold
Sissy’s resume displays her will, her intelligence and her remarkable energy. What it doesn’t reveal is her warmth, her generosity, and her empathy.
Martin Sheen, Opal Tometi, Danny Glover y Kerry Kennedy Presentarán la 45 ava edición Anual de los Premios de Derechos Humanos Letelier-Moffitt del Institute for Policy Studies
Martin Sheen y Kerry Kennedy entregarán el premio nacional a la Coalición Internacional para la Abolición de la Tortura y Apoyo a Sobrevivientes (TASSC), Opal Tometi entregará el premio internacional a la Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras (OFRANEH), y Danny Glover pronunciará comentarios sobre la recaudación de fondos y cómo apoyar la ceremonia de premios Letelier-Moffitt.
Martin Sheen, Opal Tometi, Danny Glover, and Kerry Kennedy Will Present at the Institute for Policy Studies’ 45th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
Martin Sheen and Kerry Kennedy will present the domestic award to Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC), Opal Tometi will present the international award to the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), and Danny Glover will follow up with remarks about the Letelier-Moffitt awards ceremony.
“Pandora Papers” expert, Chuck Collins, author of The Wealth Hoarders, available for comment on the Pandora Papers revelations
Over the last two months, Collins has briefed ICIJ journalists on the “wealth hiding” systems in the USA.
Why Billionaires Love to Park Their Dynastic Wealth in Places Like South Dakota
State-level loopholes have made it possible for some of the wealthiest families in the world to make sure most of their riches are never taxed.
The Least Sympathetic People in the Entire World?
They just may be the super rich who’ve bought mega-million condos in midtown Manhattan’s now infamous needle towers.
The UN Crisis
This problem of rogue actors has long bedeviled the United Nations. But the rise of right-wing populists who insist on their sovereign right to do whatever they please poses an additional challenge to the international community.
Why Did a U.S. Envoy Meet With the Head of a Fascist Militia in India?
The fact that India is well on its way to full-fledged authoritarianism hasn’t factored into the Biden administration’s approach to the “world’s largest democracy.”
Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement
Today’s voting rights and economic justice advocates must apply two key lessons from the courageous activists of a half-century ago.
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