FPIF's Emira Woods will be featured on a panel of the "Global-Local Forum" at UDC's International Education Week.
A global climate fund with the expertise and independence to help developing countries to adapt to and mitigate climate change is essential to ensure that funding truly meets the needs of poor countries and communities, makes the best use of U.S. taxpayer dollars, protects past and present development gains, and supports global human security.
A carbon tax was always going against the grain — against the presumption that the most straightforward and effective approach to carbon emissions pricing couldn’t prevail over America’s special-interest politics and tax aversion — and against the smart money that insisted on hiding the price and buying off the opposition.
We rarely get the opportunity to celebrate a living cultural icon. Yet, this opportunity has presented itself in the form of an amazing 60th birthday celebration for IPS Board Chair, E. Ethelbert Miller.
The Calling by Danny Alpert is a behind-the-scenes look at young Americans - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - preparing to become the nation's next generation of religious leaders. The Calling follows their transformation from idealistic students into ordained religious professionals. This documentary explores the forces that are drawing a new generation of young people to serve their communities and their faith.
Honor IPS'er Marcus Raskin by attending the annual Activist Awards Grassroots Gala.
Not Just A Game, the powerful new documentary based on Zirin’s bestselling book The People’s History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long need at the center of some of major political debates and struggles of our time. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.
With Congress deadlocked over the future of the Bush-era tax cuts, what are the prospects for progressive tax policies? How serious is the deficit issue – and what are progressive proposals to reduce it? What type of tax and revenue system will move us toward a new economy that reduces inequality and is ecologically sustainable?
Many progressives assume those who serve in the military are conservatives.
Around the world, entrepreneurs are experimenting with public-private, for-profit and non-profit hybrid models for fueling human service activity and job creation, economic and community development, environmental quality, and other public benefit activities.
It might be assumed that the progressive community is in agreement about the revelatory usefulness of WikiLeaks disclosures. After all the public has the right to know, right? A recent discussion among IPS research fellows however indicated that there is more to be considered than meets the eye.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The winter holiday season brings many reasons to celebrate and gather. The Institute for Policy Studies requests the honor of your presence for a Winter Solstice celebration filled with friends, food, and frivolity.
Watch The Calling by Danny Alpert with IPS. A behind-the-scenes look at young Americans - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - preparing to become the nation's next generation of religious leaders.
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth company.
How do we prepare for economic and ecological change? In response to our insecure times, congregations and communities are forming “Common Security Clubs” to build resilience and strengthen community ties.