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Peter Certo

Peter Certo

Peter Certo lives in Kent, Ohio, and is the editorial manager of the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of OtherWords.org.

COMMENTARY

Republican ‘solutions’ will make inflation worse

By: - October 26, 2022

My wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last. There are now rumblings of a gradual decline, but rising interest rates will likely offset any savings. So with our beloved but rickety 2006 Altima facing another cruel […]

COMMENTARY

The Supreme Court is giving extreme new powers to increasingly autocratic state governments

By: - May 18, 2022

There’s a lot to be worried about in the draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade — and with it, half a century of constitutional precedent. At least 26 states are likely to criminalize abortions, often without exceptions for rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancies. In Louisiana, people seeking abortions could even face execution, which doesn’t strike […]