“We are behind where the state of the debate is in Europe,” says Sarah Anderson, who directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Though European conservatives peddle austerity, says Anderson, they have “more of a clear...
As Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb write in their study “A Unified Security Budget for the United States,” “The death of Osama bin Laden was accomplished by means that resembled a police action…. The decade of war the United States launched...
While President Obama broke the silence about revenue in the current deficit debate, a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies—“Unnecessary Austerity”— outlines a bold plan for how Congress could raise more than $4 trillion over the...
If Democrats want to rally unions—and military-industry workers in particular—to support cuts, they’d do well to propose defense conversion plans, says Miriam Pemberton of the Institute for Policy Studies, who co-wrote a report last year called...
