John Cavanagh
John Cavanagh is the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank celebrating its 50th year.
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Views Saturday, May 09, 2020 Trump Isn’t the First to Threaten WHO, but His Threat Is the Most Dangerous Donald Trump isn’t the first president to threaten to cut funding from the World Health Organization (WHO), but he’s the first to actually do it. And, in the middle of a global pandemic, when this agency is saving lives, it couldn’t come at a worse time. I worked at the WHO in Geneva four decades... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Why I’m Ready to Get Arrested with Restaurant Workers This week I'm joining thousands of people from all walks of life – from workers to environmentalists to the just plain angry – descending on Capitol Hill to risk arrest and offer a primal scream for democracy. Under the banners of Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening , we will be sticking our... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 09, 2015 Celebrating John Conyers, the Longest-Serving African-American Congressman As Republicans take control of Congress this week, it’s a good time for progressives to reflect on the long arc of social change. And I can think of no better way to do this than to celebrate the half century of service of Rep. John Conyers. First elected to represent Detroit in 1965, Conyers is... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 08, 2014 The Moment for Climate Justice This week, the House will vote on the Electrify Africa Act. This bill directs the president to draw up a multi-year strategy to strengthen the ability of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to “develop an appropriate mix of power solutions” to provide electricity, fight poverty, and “drive economic... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 21, 2014 The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 20, 2013 A Typhoon Tax: Climate Action Would Save the Planet and the Economy Americans are generous by nature. About half of U.S. families contributed to earthquake relief in Haiti in 2010, and millions of us have already supported typhoon aid for the Philippines. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest Read more |
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Views Friday, October 11, 2013 Forging Ahead at 50 Fifty years ago, two progressive former Kennedy administration officials opened the doors of the Institute for Policy Studies. Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 18, 2013 How About a Tax System for the 99 Percent? Paying taxes, as tens of millions of us in the United States do every April, evokes many emotions—from gratitude for government programs that feed the hungry to disgust over paying for fossil fuel subsidies and unjust wars. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Inequality Is Hurting Us All Inequality hurts us all. Imagine if you could go back 45 years to 1968. That year, after three decades of creative policy from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal through President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, the United States was one of the world’s most equal nations. Read more |