Inequality Was Responsible for the Depth of the Great Recession
The deeply unequal America of 2006 had a greater proportion of low-wealth households than the America of earlier postwar decades — that contrast really mattered.
This Could Be the Year to Close America’s Surplus Military Bases
If Congress gets out of the way.
How Drugs Will Get Under, Over, and Around Trump’s Wall
A wall may be a powerful symbol, but it won’t be a useful tool in the war on drugs, Sanho Tree explains in an interview with Vice.
How the War on Drugs Has Made Drug Traffickers More Ruthless and Efficient
In this interview with Vox, IPS drug policy expert Sanho Tree explains how evolution could have predicted the failure of the war on drugs.
Dividing the Right and Conquering Trump
Trump is extremely effective at dividing and conquering his opponents. What would it take for progressives to divide his supporters?
Witnessing The Birth Of A New Nationalist World Order
The world urgently needs a new generation of democratic internationalists — or there won’t be much of a world left when Trump’s confederacy of oligarchs gets through with it.