Cyclone Amphan Is a Warning for the United States
The storm ravaged India and Bangladesh all the worse because of social and economic inequality. The same, or worse, could happen here.
Emperor Trump Now Stands Partially Naked
Many of the establishment figures now turning on Trump have blood on their hands. But that’s the point.
Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform
Why the IPS Climate Policy Program Supports a People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy.
Congress Should Pass an Emergency Charity Stimulus
As wealth concentrates, so have charitable dollars. To get donations to frontline nonprofits, Congress must pass an emergency charity stimulus.
Change Finance, Not the Climate
How to get money out of fossil fuels — and into a Green New Deal.
Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Gains Surge Past Half-Trillion as 42.6 million File for Unemployment
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Up $565 billion since March 18, a gain of
over 19 percent.
The Looming New Amityville Horror
One of the nation’s largest middle-class counties faces a huge hit on public school budgets as the super rich get set to frolic in the summertime surf.
Trump’s War on the Hungry
The Trump administration has waged war on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps.
Ipsos Poll: 72 Percent of Americans Support an Emergency Charity Stimulus
New research finds that many aspects of private foundations and DAFs are not acceptable to Americans.
The Descent of America
America’s racism is destroying its advanced status in real time — and with it, the most redeeming parts of liberal internationalism.
Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture.
‘Failed State’ Status Here We Come?
Societies that tolerate deep divides in income and wealth invite pandemic disasters.
Coronavirus Denial and Climate Denial Have One Thing in Common: Greed
Despite 100,000 confirmed US coronavirus deaths, powerful economic interests are fighting to reopen the country prematurely — no matter the cost to workers.
Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19
Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits.
Is It Time to Boycott the United States?
The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy warrant the same treatment?
A Virtual Assembly Takes On BlackRock’s Big Problem
‘We can’t address the climate crisis without big changes at BlackRock.’
US Billionaire Wealth Surges $434 Billion as Unemployment Filers Top 38 Million
The combined wealth of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has climbed by nearly $60 billion in the last two months.
Hot and Cold Wars: Militarism and Pandemic
War hasn’t taken a break during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Inefficient and Incredibly Lucrative Chase for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Our hottest biotech firm hasn’t yet manufactured an antidote to COVID-19. Still, the company has manufactured three billionaires.
Elon Musk and the Billionaire War on Public Health
The billionaire Tesla CEO made hundreds of millions more by illegally forcing his employees back to work in a pandemic.
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