IPS Board Selects Tope Folarin as New Executive Director, with John Cavanagh Transitioning to Senior Advisor
Sarita Gupta Named IPS Interim Board Chair
The Right Wing Has Always Been Pro-‘Cancel Culture’
From brutalizing protestors to rolling back voting rights, don’t get it confused: The right has always tried to “cancel” the views it despises.
The Court’s Already Packed. The Question Is How to Fix It.
Biden is lukewarm about expanding the Supreme Court, and Nancy Pelosi says she won’t schedule a vote on it. Still, Republicans are fuming.
Excerpt From ‘A Particular Kind of Black Man’
Tope Folarin shares an excerpt from his new book, ‘A Particular Kind of Black Man.”
IPS launching search for new Executive Director
The IPS Board is excited to engage you in the search for a new IPS Executive Director.
Hamilton and the Iconoclasts of Tomorrow
What blind spots will future generations condemn us for as they tear down today’s statues tomorrow?
Even in a Pandemic, Stocks Are Fueling a Billionaire Boom
Even with tens of millions out of work, billionaires are spending record sums at high-end (socially distanced) art auctions.
Poor People’s Campaign State Fact Sheets – 2020
Note: You can find versions of the fact sheets below, updated with data from 2023, here. Fifty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many other leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign to tackle the pervasive problems of systemic racism, poverty, and...Advisory: 80 Experts Agree Green New Deal, Youth Climate Movement Keys to Defeating the Global Far-Right
Join a press call with international experts on the prospects for rolling back far-right movements in 2020.
America’s Coronavirus: Containing the Outbreak of Trumpism
The banality of President Trump’s evil has infected huge swaths of the electorate as well as the federal government. Can it be treated?
After New Islamophobic Smears, IPS Continues to Stand with Human Rights Champion Ilhan Omar
We are proud to have her host our Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards, and call on Twitter to suspend Trump’s account
Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries
“Why are we in the West so deeply uncomfortable with and?”
Advisory: Poor People’s Campaign Brings Moral Budget to Washington
Moral Budget report press call will release details exploding myth that we can’t afford to end poverty and racism ahead of 2020 candidates forum
Indigenous people call on Pan American Silver to cease local interference out of respect for the consultation process in Guatemala
Pan American Silver’s “community relations” taking place in parallel to the consultation process are coercive, heighten tensions, and jeopardize the free nature of the process.
MEDIA ADVISORY: The Institute for Policy Studies and Raskin Family to Present First Annual Marcus Raskin Award for Civic and Intellectual Courage
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II will receive the award in honor of the late Marcus Raskin’s legacy