The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.
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Peace & Foreign Policy
To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
Latest Work
A flaw in California’s cap-and-trade plan
Cap-and-trade offsets with out-of-state or even foreign interests won’t help the state meet its goals.
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Platinum-Plated Pensions
In the current budget debate, the loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from two lobby groups led by CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security.
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Opening COP19 Warsaw: A Climate Justice Take on UN Talks
To mark the start of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19) in Warsaw, Poland, a new series of Climate Justice briefings has been released offering critical perspectives on a number of the crucial issues under discussion.
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Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest
Gone are the days when the U.S. accounted for over 40 percent of the world’s billionaires, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest.
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What Comes Next: Rights, Not ‘Arrangements,’ for Palestinians
On the ground, in the real world, of course there is no longer any possibility of a real “two-state” solution.
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This Week in OtherWords: October 9, 2013
Donald Kaul blames the shutdown and the debt-ceiling perils on “zombie lawmakers.”
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Forging Ahead at 50
Not every think tank could weather FBI infiltration, scapegoating by right-wing extremists, and even a car-bomb assassination.
Read moreClimate Policy Expert Calls Lack of Money “Elephant in the Room” at Climate Finance Meeting
The Green Climate Fund was established to provide money for climate adaptations to developing countries
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This Week in OtherWords: October 2, 2013
Richard Kirsch explores the values divide contributing to the government’s shutdown while Donald Kaul blames the impasse on the Republican Party.
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Reports
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
The Pandemic Pivot
Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live