Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

Fans worldwide are unequivocally challenging FIFA's continued support for Israel, organizing with unprecedented unity for Palestine. Unlike previous ...

Back in March, the Trump administration bragged about raiding a big Tren de Aragua gathering" in the Texas hill country outside of Austin. Forty-five people were taken into custody, including ...

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is ...

Jeff Eastland was raised in Iowa and graduated from San Jose State with a BA in Environmental Studies in 1973, the first Environmental Studies program in the US. Eastland has lived in Virginia ...

Spoiler alert: who is eating and being eaten is the issue in the business world. That is, small businesses, his stated beneficiaries of the tariffs, can’t eat the cost of these taxes on foreign ...

Grant Inskeep is an activist from Denver, Colorado currently based out of Phoenix, Arizona. He writes on socioeconomics, philosophy and geopolitics on Instagram @the_pragmatic_utopian. Justin ...

Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test ...

"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the ...

Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and ...

+ Rand Paul on Trump’s Big, Beautiful Military Birthday Parade: “I wouldn’t have done it. I’m not sure what the actual expense of it is, but…We were always different from, you know, the ...

Trump, who seems to treat executive orders like a Nike slogan (“just do it”), has commanded that the US quadruple its nuclear energy capacity by 2050. This will be achieved not only by ...