Debates Debrief: What’s Missing, What’s Next
You’re invited to join the local social justice community for a special election debates debrief and decompression.
Debunking the Presidential Debate
Come for a panel discussion on one of the most, farcical and absurd presidential races in recent history.
Inequality and Presidential Politics: Opportunities for Changing the Game
Join IPS economic and social inequality experts in discussing how this election year can be a pivotal moment for the movement to reverse inequality.
The GOP Candidates Know Nothing about Syria
Ending this imbroglio requires robust diplomacy.
The GOP’s Can’t-do Attitude
Refusing to address climate change could drown Florida.
America’s Dismal Choice
The final stretch of the 2012 campaign has turned into a bipartisan exercise in imperial chest-thumping.
Citizen Participation in Presidential Debates Kicked to the Curb This Election
Campaigns mounted to ask the candidates questions about human rights abuses and atrocities in places like Darfur, the Sudans, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were ignored.
Mitt Wants to be President – This President
Conservatives are going to bed very nervous tonight. They must be realizing that Mitt really is the liberal they were afraid he was. Peace, love, and… gender equality?
Last Chance to Put Climate on the Debate Agenda
Both President Obama and Governor Romney have to break their silence on climate change in the third and final presidential debate tonight
Six Global Issues The Foreign Policy Debates Won’t Touch
In the foreign policy debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, expect these issues to get short thrift.
Off-Topic: The Presidential Debate — Does Aggressiveness Play With Swing Voters?
Research has shown that one of the main reasons Americans don’t like politics is conflict between candidates and in Congress.
Candidates on Darfur
As the Democratic presidential primary campaign limps on, and the cacophony of focus-grouped sound bites strikes a fevered pitch, the candidates are making surprisingly little noise about Darfur.