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

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 ...

In his inaugural speech, South Korea’s recently elected President Lee Jae-myung declared that ‘no peace is too expensive; it is always better than war’.

Are we all fools? Apparently, the US Forest Service and our politicians think so as we see exploding budgets for addressing wildfire that result in ...

When activists attempt to resist outside these boundaries, especially with transparency and nonviolence, to challenge State led starvation, the (Holy) State’s reaction often reveals its ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1984 to 1992, Deborah “Arnie” Arnesen became the first major party female ...

The huge decentralized turnout for No Kings Day has shown that grassroots power can be a major force against the momentum of the Trump regime. The ...

Gladys I. McCormick is Associate Professor of History and Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-US Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

+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 ...