Institute for Policy Studies

We were going from a place of like, how are we going to really use our imagination and creativity to help organizations that are under threat to how do we protect ourselves? And that culture is still very pervasive across the foundation sector, as exemplified by the fact that it grew $150 billion.

If it had not grown, if we had seen the foundation sector, if we saw reports right now coming out of the Center for Effective Philanthropy or Institute for Policy Studies that said, oh my God, the foundation sector responded in amazing ways.

The White House cut out $187 billion.

foundation stepped up with $200 billion to make up for it, that would have been incredible.

Her work has appeared in publications, many, many publications, New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Washingtonian Magazine, Moment Magazine, and others.

She's going to be joined in conversation with Tope Faloran, a Nigerian-American writer based here in D.C. who serves as a director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lenin Visiting Lecture in Creative Writing at Georgetown University.

And he is a recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards.

Tope serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater here in D.C., the Penn Faulkner Foundation, and as a member of the President's Council of Pathfinder.

First, let's talk about where Jamie Raskin comes from.

Jamie Raskin's father, Marcus Raskin, was a co-founder of the Marxist organization, the Institute for Policy Studies.

That organization worked closely with the Soviet Union, even hosting Soviet officials in the United States during the 1980s.

That organization, the Institute for Policy, hosted Alger Hess and later ran the Alger Hiss lectures after a request from the state.

You

know what, Alan? When I first got out of prison, My first real job was at a progressive think tank called the Institute for Policy Studies.

And like any left-wing organization, they're always broke.

And so they were looking for ways to try to bring in a couple extra dollars.

The story of the week is kind of a fun one that has a potential to bring people together, and that is data centers.

The fact that almost everybody hates them is what I wrote about for Other Words, a project of Institute for Policy Studies.

It should be out within a couple of days of you and I speaking.

And so, you know, the idea is that there's data centers popping up almost everywhere, not just in the United States, but actually globally as well, mostly by big companies, massive tech companies like Amazon and Google and Anthropic and some of these AI companies that want to have these powerful warehouses filled with computer processors in order to process the enormous amounts of data.

We should be looking for this wear when it comes out.

Other Words, which is, I believe, otherwords.org.

But it's a publication of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Which is a great group.

And executive produced several documentary films, including the Oscar and Emmy nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America, Netflix's The Square, and Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything.

And she sits on many boards, including Institute for Policy Studies, Schumacher Center for New Economics, and agrarian land trust and i know there's so much more miss jody evans but hey welcome to a rude awakening truly appreciate you taking the time

thank you so much for having me

So a lot going on here.

Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire.

And she executive produced several documentary films, including the Oscar and Emmy-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America, Netflix's The Square, and Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything.

She sits on many boards, including Institute for Policy Studies, Schumacher Center for New Economics, and Agrarian Land Trust.

Ms. Joni Evans, thank you so, so much for gracing us with your presence this morning.