Institute for Policy Studies

06/22/2026

NEW: Last week, a Chilean judge convicted three former secret police agents for the murder of IPS colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt fifty years ago, killed alongside Orlando Letelier on orders of Chilean dictator Pinochet. This is a huge step toward justice.

IPS Applauds the Convictions of Three Chilean Secret Police Agents in the 1976 Assassination of Ronni Karpen Moffitt

06/22/2026

NEW: AI barons are pushing to create a “public wealth fund” to share in the AI boom. But all of the AI titans, including OpenAI, are now *losing* hundreds of billions.

If this bubble busts, the public shouldn’t be on the hook.

06/22/2026

(TW: mention of su***de) NEW: Children’s mental health is already deteriorating in the U.S. — and ICE raids and detention are making it worse. End them now.

🔗 Read the analysis at the link in our bio.

06/18/2026

NEW: Gig companies including Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Uber, and Lyft are now using workers’ personal data(!) to determine how low of a wage they’ll accept.

This isn’t innovation — it’s exploitation. Fair wages now.

06/18/2026

NEW: Previous World Cup hosts relaxed visa policies to welcome fans. The U.S., instead, restricts or bans entry for people from 39 countries, four of them in the Cup.

The World Cup should overcome barriers, not reinforce them.

06/16/2026

IPS Wallace Fellows are named for former Vice President Henry A. Wallace — who decried American fascism back in the 1940s.

to work as a Wallace Fellow at IPS this summer!

06/15/2026

ICE has detained 6,200(!) children nationwide, some as young as two years old.

No child deserves the lasting trauma of being targeted, locked up, and separated from their family. End this cruelty now.

06/12/2026

NEW: In Pennsylvania, after hundreds of residents spoke out, the state Supreme Court blocked the sale of a local public water system to a for-profit company.

Corporate takeover is never inevitable. People can beat it. 👏

06/12/2026

The choice should be easy. We need to reprioritize.

06/11/2026

NEW: Cubans have faced decades of U.S.-imposed deprivation, organizing and helping each other live. Now, more people here at home face deprivation too.

Instead of threatening Cubans, the U.S. should learn from them.