Peter Certo is the Communications Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He edits its Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords services, contributes regularly to both outlets, and works with IPS experts to develop writing for mainstream and progressive publications.
He’s a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy, and helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
Even in what feels like an angry, factionalized society, there are signs of unity.
As the horrifying human costs in Gaza escalate, progressives are calling on the president to call for a ceasefire.
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 MAGA bargain goes something like this: If we hurt other people worse, is it ok if we hurt you, too?
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
If cutting corporate tax rates and making billionaires wealthier actually fixed inflation, it would have been fixed ages ago.
The Supreme Court is giving extreme new powers to increasingly autocratic state governments. That’s not democracy.
The media has a responsibility to tell Americans that a major party now openly endorses using violence to overturn elections.
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The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we’ll see.
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.
The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive.
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If we don’t expand our democracy now, we might lose it for generations to come.
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“Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. And buy a subscription to your local newspaper.”
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