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

The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert Kaplan, (Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 135). This book by Robert D. Kaplan is ...

Since the strike began, Boeing has been forced to release a second contract offer, which includes a 30 percent pay increase over the next 4 years, up from 25 percent in the last offer. The strike ...

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 ...

We’ve entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. “They’re eating cats, they’re eating dogs,” Trump had exclaimed frantically, echoing words that could’ve been uttered by a Klansman ...

David Masciotra is the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. He has written for the Progressive, New ...

The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned building designed for the Mixed Oxide Plant. The spectacularly failed ...

Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for “treatment-resistant depression” are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress ...

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously ...

Introduction The concept of the “ ruling class ” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions. [1] This article traces the evolution ...

They instituted a policy of executing Black POWs, ignoring the decorum afforded to white POWs. Many massacres of Black troops line the war’s history; at Fort Pillow, around 200 Black soldiers ...

Bernie will “fight the oligarchy” until the Democrat Party machine comes back into power, at which time he and AOC will have their muzzles placed back on. The momentary rhetorical flourishes ...