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

"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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When the Manti–La Sal National Forest issued its decision to log, masticate (grinding trees down to stumps), and burn across 952,115 acres – a stunning 1,487 square miles – more than two ...

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are trying to ram through a major taxpayer-funded private school program, according to education policy experts who appeared on an online ...

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 ...

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 ...