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A Bush-era economist recently likened progressive taxation to forceful kidney removal. Dean Baker puts his claim in context.

A prisoner on hunger strike in California shares his story of years spent in isolation.

Austerity has been intellectually discredited in recent months. But conservative spending cuts still dominate policy.

The u2018marketu2019 isnu2019t working for working people. The rich have rigged the rules. We ought to keep trying, of course, to reduce the resulting inequality. But why not, unions …

The figure of hunger strikers has only risen since the military acknowledged the protest in March.

Prisoners are calling for a hunger strike to begin on July 8, 2013, vowing not to eat until their demands are met.

If we cannot cut off aid to Egypt when an aid cutoff is mandated by US law, under what circumstances could we do it?

Thomas Jefferson is admired for his elegant prose in the Declaration of Independence, but he was a world-class hypocrite.

Controversy around big-box stores like Walmart, Target, Lowes and Home Depot is nothing new, but communities are getting smarter about tackling these corporate giants.

In ‘Whitey's Payback and Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge’ TJ English reports on a 'vast ecosystem, a parallel universe to the social and economic system we …