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Leadership Programs
Forging a Democracy that Works for All: Institute for Policy Studies Launches Blueprint to Counter Power of Billionaires, Corporations, and the Pentagon ahead of Symposium
On July 23, the 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium will feature insights from movement leaders, policy experts, and elected officials on how to protect hard-earned rights and frontline communities, confront corporate power and Pentagon profiteering, and renew our democratic institutions from within.
Climate Justice
El modelo de energía «verde» de Honduras se basa en el despojo, advierte estudio, mientras el Congreso de Honduras se dispone a privatizar la Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE)
En informe explica como generación, distribución y transmisión privada de energía disfrazada de sostenibilidad, que genera daños ambientales, sociales y económicos en las comunidades afectadas, colma de garantías a los inversionistas privados, y trata el acceso a la electricidad como una mercancía en lugar de un derecho humano.
Climate Justice
Honduras’ “green” energy model is based on dispossession, study warns, as Honduran Congress prepares to privatize the NationalElectrical Energy Company (ENEE)
Report shows how private energy generation, distribution, and transmission under the guise of sustainability leads to environmental, social, and economic harm to affected communities, ensures exorbitant guarantees to private investors, and treats access to electricity as a commodity rather than a human right.
Economic Justice, Racial & Gender Justice
New report highlights how funding public transit in Alabama gets people to work, reduces workforce shortage and fuels economic development
If the Alabama legislature invested just $25 million in state appropriations for public transit, those funds would leverage up to another $100 million in federal funding to support local transit, creating 2,561 new jobs.
Peace & Foreign Policy
Over 50 Years, Measures of Justice
Milestones on the Path to Accountability for the Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt
Peace & Foreign Policy
IPS Applauds the Convictions of Three Chilean Secret Police Agents in the 1976 Assassination of Ronni Karpen Moffitt
Agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet killed Moffitt and her IPS colleague Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C. 50 years ago. Family members and IPS leaders respond to the historic ruling.
IPS in the news
IPS Giving Pledge Report Featured in Fortune’s Coverage of Philanthropy
Fortune cites a July 2025 IPS report on the Giving Pledge finding that just one couple among the original 57 signatories has actually given away half their wealth, and that the 32 original U.S. pledgers who are still billionaires have grown roughly 283% richer since signing — labeling the pledge “unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.”
Sanho Tree in Raw Story: Trump Is ‘Using Dead Soldiers as Sock Puppets’
IPS fellow Sanho Tree is quoted in Raw Story pushing back on Trump’s exploitation of fallen soldiers’ deaths to justify the Iran war, calling it “using dead soldiers as sock puppets.”
Chris Mills Rodrigo: The Indictment of Raúl Castro Is a Pretext for U.S. Invasion
IPS’s Chris Mills Rodrigo writes in In These Times that the indictment of Raúl Castro follows a familiar script — from Iraq to Libya to Venezuela — of manufacturing pretexts for U.S. military aggression, warning that Americans need to push back before the invasion narrative takes hold.
IPS Report on Military Costs in Hawaiʻi Cited in Common Dreams Piece on RIMPAC War Games
Common Dreams cites IPS research on the hidden costs of US military presence in Hawaiʻi in a piece arguing that RIMPAC 2026 prioritizes war preparations over the climate disasters and housing crises already devastating Pacific communities.
IPS Research on Fare Evasion Penalties Cited in TheTravel’s Coverage of Amtrak ‘Seat Stealer’ Controversy
The Travel cites IPS research on fare evasion penalties in a viral piece about an Amtrak passenger who rode the Acela 100 miles without a ticket, sparking debate over whether U.S. transit systems need harsher consequences for fare dodgers.
Hanna Homestead on Why Congress Should Not Fund an Unauthorized War with Iran
Hanna Homestead of IPS’s National Priorities Project is quoted in The Hill warning that Congress should not fund an unauthorized war with Iran, citing polls showing Americans have opposed the conflict from the start.
