As many as 80 percent of overweight children may experience a lifetime of increased health risks.
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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
Sick and Fired
All workers should have access to earned sick leave when they need it.
Read moreLet’s Hear from Candidates–Not their Spokespeople
Can journalists give the people the information we need to make rational decisions in elections anymore?
Read moreDon’t Mess with Georgia’s Brown Thrasher
There’s a campaign to declare the chicken–the state’s cash cow–the State Bird.
Read moreHope Dims for Electricity Reform
Basically, change is slow, slow, slow.
Read moreIt’s not Government’s Size, It’s the Stupidity
There are few things more powerful than a bad idea that gets made into legislation.
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The Foreign Policy of Baseball
Major league baseball and U.S. global policy have both been acting like they’re on steroids. But the similarities run a great deal deeper.
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The State of the World’s Women
On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day: the good, the bad, and the potentially ugly.
Read moreEgypt’s Impending Political Earthquake
Egypt is gearing up for a presidential election that will likely transform the politics of this critical Middle Eastern country — and the United States can play a constructive role.
Read moreIsrael-U.S. Relations, Obama Visits Afghanistan, and Another Occupation Election
Talking points on the aftermath of Biden’s trip to Israel, the president’s trip to Afghanistan, and the elections in Iraq.
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Reports
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
Tax Day 2019: Where Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2018
How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide