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 ...

The extraordinary snap presidential election triggered by the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol turned out voters in record numbers. Of 44.39 million eligible voters, 35.24 million cast their ...

At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

An agent at the desk told me to come back in thirty minutes. When I did, he loaded me and the bicycle in a van and drove us out of the city to the Kars Otogar [station], located on a main road ...

I take the bull by the horns: Keenly aware, as I write in the category of the “spiritual,” that avoidance of the G-word is safest, instinct – or is it just contrariness? – tends me toward ...

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 ...

+Trump (45) and his party created a Supreme Court that has (among many horrific decisions): canceled women’s half- century constitutional right to an abortion; permitted Trump him to run for ...

"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 ...

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 ...