Self-righteous human rights attacks on other countries don’t help mask glaring needs at home, particularly food and shelter for millions.
Read morePeace & 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
U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
As long as there is high demand for drugs in the United States, the illicit drug trade and all its bloody consequences won’t stop.
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College Basketball Graduation Rate Insanity
Too many colleges are putting big money sports over the education of their student-athletes.
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The New Anti-Nuclear Movement
The Obama administration has a new nuclear policy. And we need a new anti-nuclear movement that can reach for change.
Read morePalin’s Contract with Stanislaus
Sarah Palin’s demands for a speaking engagement aren’t so folksy.
Read moreWill America Buy a New Climate Policy?
Congress is deadlocked on the issue of climate change. But a new bill, with bipartisan support, has a good chance of breaking the deadlock and actually reducing U.S. carbon emissions.
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Review: ‘Bridging Partition’
This powerful collection of essays describes the citizen diplomacy and peace movements that have been taking root in India and Pakistan.
Read moreRushing to Universal Coverage
It’s great that Rush Limbaugh appreciates universal health care.
Read moreWhat If We’re Not So Angry?
The world won’t end if the United States isn’t likely to end the world.
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Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go?
At an FPIF panel on Afghanistan at the recent Left Forum in New York, panelists agreed that there are no military solutions to the current situation but disagreed on whether U.S. troops should leave as soon as possible.
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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