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.
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The president once distanced himself from the Bush legacy. Now he’s brought back the architects of its darkest moments.
The president’s “open hand” to Democrats is full of poison pills.
At his inauguration Trump promised a government controlled by the people. How are the people faring so far?
It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it.
When our soldiers kill and die in wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy anymore.
Republicans are condemning Trump’s coddling of white supremacists. Can they speak out against racist laws, too?
The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin.
By putting such a sinister face on it, Trump might have finally inspired lawmakers to rein in America’s post-9/11 war machine.
The president didn’t just want the FBI to stop investigating his friend Mike Flynn. He wanted it to arrest journalists.
Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, I hope Trump will open up our country — not bomb theirs.
With mass-casualty events from Raqqa to Mosul, some think the U.S. military is scrapping rules designed to protect innocents.
What could Sessions have talked to the Russian ambassador about that could compare to his atrocious record on civil rights?
The president’s obsession with Muslims and immigrants gives cover to a simmering white nationalist movement at home.
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If Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about anything — including things that hurt his own supporters.
During the Cold War, the CIA did just the kind of meddling in foreign elections it’s accusing Russia of doing today — and more.
Trump’s core supporters were so anxious about the changing face of America, they were willing to vote alongside the Klan.
Bad trade deals created the social rot Trump is exploiting today. Why does Hillary defend them?
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