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

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 ...

ICE agents are storming California farms, mom-and-pop restaurants, and Home Depot parking lots — chasing undocumented workers through ...

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

Emmalea Russo is a writer and astrologer. Her books of poetry are G, Wave Archive, Confetti, and Magenta. Recent work has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, ...

The Talmud contends that “Whosoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the whole world; whosoever destroys a single life is as if he had destroyed ...

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military ...

Boycotts of restaurants that refuse to let their workers unionize are gathering steam nationwide, with the latest boycott against 6 popular eateries in ...

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 ...

Early Saturday morning, June 14th, 2025–the morning of Trump’s birthday gift to himself in the form of a military parade–Minnesota State Representative ...

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 ...