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Section: Institute for Policy Studies (USA)

      The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition
      Mar21

      The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition

      At the outset, the United States was blessed with enormous tracts of land (that it stole from the natives) and a considerable labor force (that it enslaved from Africa) to achieve economic success based largely on growing things. The next leap forward—into the industrial era—was facilitated by large deposits of coal and oil. A century later,...

      Militarized Funding in Biden Budget Totals Well Over $1 Trillion (and it will grow)
      Mar13

      Militarized Funding in Biden Budget Totals Well Over $1 Trillion (and it will grow)

      Today the White House released President Biden’s budget proposal, including a proposal for $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending for FY 2025, which begins on October 1, 2024. While the larger budgets makes some important strides forward, this discretionary proposal won’t provide security we need, in terms of costs of living, quality...

      United We Dream and Allies Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Immigrant Protections
      Feb23

      United We Dream and Allies Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Immigrant Protections

      “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go!” Last week, I joined an action hosted by United We Dream in DC’s Capitol Hill. We demanded a ceasefire now in Gaza and permanent protections for immigrants who have made the United States our home. This action was a response to Senate leaders proposing a bill earlier this month that...

      The Senate’s Failed War and Border Deal is Not Security
      Feb09

      The Senate’s Failed War and Border Deal is Not Security

      The $118 billion bill that Senate leaders put forward this week is a deal that never should have been made. The proposal puts the U.S. and world at greater risk for wider war, props up the inexcusable actions of the far-right Netanyahu government, and adopts a Trump-like approach to immigration. Bad for Americans. The deal puts forward $118...

      Are North Korea’s Latest Threats Rhetorical or Real?
      Feb03

      Are North Korea’s Latest Threats Rhetorical or Real?

      The Korean War ended more than 70 years ago, and a tense peace has reigned ever since on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas have exchanged artillery fire, battled in the economic and diplomatic arenas, and even covertly dispatched spies to each other’s territory. But the threats of a resumption of conflict, disproportionately coming from...

      The End of Europe
      Jan25

      The End of Europe

      It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine. As 2023 ended, European nations failed to agree on a $54-billion package of assistance for...

      What’s Going to Happen to Taiwan?
      Jan23

      What’s Going to Happen to Taiwan?

      Much of international relations is pretense. The leaders of countries pretend to like each other, shaking hands with smiles and manufactured bonhomie. International treaties, which countries solemnly ratify, are often honored only in the breach. Then there are borders, the cement that holds together the international order. Nation-states are the...

      Pentagon Pollution Is a Global Embarrasment
      Dec18

      Pentagon Pollution Is a Global Embarrasment

      World leaders just wrapped up 2023’s international climate forum, COP28, held in Dubai. The forum opened on November 30 with an embarrassment for the host country, the United Arab Emirates, when the president of the gathering—who also leads the UAE’s state oil company—was caught using the platform to secretly push fossil fuel deals....

      Rescuing Realpolitik from Henry Kissinger
      Dec08

      Rescuing Realpolitik from Henry Kissinger

      Henry Kissinger wrote his doctoral dissertation about Europe’s “long peace” after the defeat of Napoleon, focusing on how conservative statesmen negotiated the Concert of Europe through a mixture of diplomacy and military power. Kissinger was enamored of this approach to achieving an “equilibrium of forces.” The lesson he absorbed, and...

      The Return of the Far Right
      Nov29

      The Return of the Far Right

      Panic does not produce prudent politics. Panic produces provocative populists. And it reduces pundits to Seussian spluttering. How can voters choose such…panic-peddling panderers?! The defeats of Donald Trump in the U.S. elections in 2020 and Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian elections in 2022 were supposed to prove that the wave of right-wing...