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

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 ...

Spoiler alert: who is eating and being eaten is the issue in the business world. That is, small businesses, his stated beneficiaries of the tariffs, can’t eat the cost of these taxes on foreign ...