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

The secrets of Greek demography A Greek newspaper editor, Nikos Konstandaras, said in the midst of the country’s debt crisis, in 2013, that: “The Greeks ...

"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 ...

In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal. What is unfolding right now in California—with hundreds of Marines ...

This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of ...

…we can see crises of liberalism as… a slackening of …imaginative power. [W]hat Emerson regarded as a defect was perhaps his essential virtue: his unwillingness to deny a truth because it ...

Donald Trump’s executive actions are clearly weakening the international standing of the United States and begging the question of U.S. relevance in terms of its political, diplomatic, and even ...

Every day that Americans don't rise-up in the millions against the malignant fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump to demand his immediate removal ...

The morning quiet is disrupted by the whine of the saw and the din of bulldozers as yet another large swath of older woodland gets decimated. Virginia, a ...

A Manchurian Candidate, as initially defined in Richard Condon's 1959 novel and the 1966 movie, is a nation’s leader controlled by that country’s enemy.

How do you provide mental health care to people being annihilated? It's a question I'm asked constantly as a psychiatrist in Gaza, and one that haunts every interaction I and other clinicians have ...

In the world of business, economic certainty is a key, not the only one, to profitability. In contrast, economic certainty aids profitability. Thus, President Trump’s on-and-off-again tariffs ...