To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
We May Be One Election From Permanent Minority Rule
Donald Trump has been defeated, but American democracy remains in peril. Here’s how we can reverse the trendline.
Why Did Democrats Pass Trump’s 2-Year Budget and Debt Ceiling Bill?
On Thursday the House passed a massive $2.7 trillion budget and debt ceiling bill with overwhelming support from Democrats and only 65 Republican votes.
Ten Good Things About the House’s (Too-Big) Military Budget
While the funding level is much higher than we need, the NDAA the House just passed takes important steps toward ending wars, preventing dangerous military conflicts, and protecting human rights.
The House Has Gone Democratic. Can It Now Go Bold?
Vague rhetoric about ‘access to health care’ and ‘good jobs’ won’t challenge the plutocracy that keeps our lives brutal. These proposals could.
It’s Time for Trump to Do Something About High CEO Pay
Candidate Trump repeatedly bashed high CEO pay, but President Trump has done very little to address CEO pay ratios.
IPS Celebrates Rep. John Conyers and His Historic 50-Year Service in Congress
Congressman Conyers is the first African-American to serve in Congress for at least 50 years and the longest-serving African-American in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Congress.
New Congressional Report Card Exposes America’s “Most 1% Friendly” Lawmakers
IPS’s new Congressional Report Card for the 99% grades lawmakers with a grade “A+” through “F” on a series of bills that either “feather the nest of America’s most affluent” or “enhance economic opportunities of our 99 percent.”
85 Percent? How Do You Figure, Mr. Ryan?
After promising his budget proposal would stick closely to the bipartisan deficit reduction commission’s recommendations, his actual blueprint looks like a work of ideological posture of his own creation.
The Midterm Elections and What They Will Mean for the Progressive Movement
Will the Democrats lose the House? How many seats might they lose and why? View the opinions of three experts from the Institute for Policy Studies.