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.
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Here’s the Thing About Terrorism Obama Won’t Tell You
Our wildly inflated fear of terrorism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Is It Time for the US to Pull Out of Iraq and Syria?
Five years after the Arab Spring began, four experts debate a pressing question that remains unsettled on the left.
Africa’s Success Story
Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy. But political turmoil has begun to roil the traditionally placid society.
13 Years After U.S. Occupation of Iraq Began, Threats to ‘Take Their Oil’
A breakdown of Donald Trump’s latest nonsensical sloganeering.
Outrage in Oregon
Taking over a federal building at the point of a rifle gives protest a bad name.
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
Economists said the market would save the planet. It didn’t.
Fat Cat Tuesday: A CEO Pay Milestone
CEOs on both sides of the Atlantic have already made more in 2016 than most of their workers will make for the entire year.
The GOP Candidates Know Nothing about Syria
Ending this imbroglio requires robust diplomacy.
Enstrictly Speaking, 2016 Could Be a Trailrazer
Trumpalist isn’t a word, at least not yet.
CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers
Loophole allowed 10 companies to shave $180 million off their taxes for CEO pay last year.
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