The cost of childcare is an impassable barrier for many women seeking to enter the workforce.

An unlikely new federal program could model how businesses can lift this barrier across our society. Lea Woods and Julie Kashen of The Century Foundation: otherwords.org/how-public-inv…

Between its deliberate attempts to thwart diplomatic resolutions to the more recent crackdown on student groups protesting for peace, the U.S. remains a significant obstacle to ending Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Edward Hunt in Foreign Policy In Focus (fpif.org): fpif.org/the-united-sta…

The U.S. military budget, nearing $1 trillion, is colossal. An ever-growing budget only exacerbates never-ending war and violence.

We need to prioritize people's lives. We need to prioritize peace. And that means a permanent ceasefire now in Gaza.

Thanks to ridiculous speed quotas, workers at Amazon’s warehouses face injuries at a higher rate than any competing company.

Unionizing would offer a protected path for workers to address these brutal conditions. chris mills rodrigo in Inequality.org: inequality.org/great-divide/a…

NEW: 'Every bomb that is held back by Washington means fewer Palestinians killed.'

Biden's potential pause on weapons to Israel is important, says Phyllis Bennis on Al Jazeera English, but not nearly enough. 'This is not the ceasefire that people are demanding.'
youtube.com/watch?v=R5OVS4…

New psychology research shows that in addition to leading shorter lives, people living in unequal societies like our own are more likely to accept unethical behavior.

Sam Pizzigati in Inequality.org: inequality.org/great-divide/t…

70% of students who get a bachelor’s degree incur student loan debt by graduation.

Biden announced a new plan with some important steps toward curbing it, but we can't stop pushing until this burden is ended completely. Candace Milner of Public Citizen: otherwords.org/this-graduatio…

IPS was founded in opposition to the Vietnam War. Our Vietnam Reader became a textbook for anti-war sit-ins, earning us a spot on Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.”

We couldn’t be prouder to stand with today's student movements fighting for what’s right. ips-dc.org/we-stand-with-…

.John Feffer: “The Balkans remain a volatile region, and Russian interference has only made matters worse. The break-up of #Yugoslavia was a disaster. The break-up of #Bosnia could be a tragic sequel.” fpif.org/europe-braces-… Foreign Policy In Focus (fpif.org) Institute for Policy Studies Lily Lynch Al Jazeera Balkans #RepublikaSrpska

By persecuting LGBTQ+ individuals, African leaders often portray themselves as defenders of traditional values. Driving the problem, however, are the American right-wing evangelical groups which fund these hateful agendas.

Daniel Volman writes in Foreign Policy In Focus (fpif.org): fpif.org/why-african-ho…

Today, communities are coming together in North Carolina to call to divest from the harmful, risky Mountain Valley Pipeline project. We stand with all those calling to #DefundMVP . 🔥

People who live in highly unequal societies feel “a lower sense of control” and look less askance at unethical behaviors, either from others or from themselves, than do people who live in distinctly more equal societies, writes Sam Pizzigati. commondreams.org/opinion/bezos-…

As the Israeli military prepares to invade Rafah, new Data for Progress polling shows than an overwhelming 70% of all U.S. voters now support a permanent ceasefire and de-escalation of violence in Gaza, a 3-point increase since February.
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Private developers are boldly claiming that building more hangars for private jets, enabling more jets and more flights, will reduce carbon emissions.

This, unsurprisingly, isn't true. Chuck Collins in Boston Herald: bostonherald.com/2024/05/04/col…