Peace and 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
Retirement Divide: 100 CEOs v. the Rest of Us
A new report calculates the gap in retirement assets between the top 100 CEOs and all African-American, Latino, female-headed, and white working class households.
Report: A Tale of Two Retirements
As working families face rising retirement insecurity, CEOs enjoy platinum pensions.
The Pentagon’s $125 Billion Cover-up
The brass asked for a report on eliminating waste. When investigators found some, the military buried it.
The Irony of the CIA’s Russia-Trump Story
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 Border Wall Won’t Solve Our Heroin Crisis
Prohibition breeds heroin substitutes that are often more dangerous and more difficult to stop, Tree tells CCTV.
Syria Needs An Arms Embargo, Not an Economic One
As long as major powers are delivering weapons to their allies in the region, diplomacy will be near impossible, Bennis told Kontext.
Can Europe Resist the Trump Tide?
Austria’s latest vote shows the European ideal isn’t dead yet. But the far right is rising quickly.
This City Just Came Up With a Novel Way to Fight Inequality. It Starts With Bold Grassroots Action.
Portland, Oregon has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations that pay their CEOs more than 100 times what they pay typical workers.
Historic CEO Pay Tax Proposal Passes in Portland
Experts available for comment on the nation’s first tax penalty for extreme CEO-worker pay gaps.
We’ve Been Calling Out the Overpaid Oil Execs Trump’s Considering for Secretary of State for Years
As someone who’s been analyzing excessive CEO pay for more than 20 years, I feel like I know these guys.