Op-Ed

Dean Baker: Suppose Bill Gates established an insurance company that gave people the option of getting some of their health care in other countries.

Maya Schenwar: Stories are acts, and acts have impacts, and when we report on something, we are putting the existence of that something out into the universe.

Robert Naiman: Republicans are calling Harry Reid a dictator for not allowing a Senate vote on an Iran sanctions bill that will blow up ongoing negotiations.

Despite the unconstitutional horrors and atrocities that have taken place at Gitmo since it first began taking in prisoners 12 year ago, the prison doors are still open, and …

Invoking the magic incantation “free trade” seems to neutralize the reasoning ability of economists and the media.

Hagel may find it hard to see through the tear gas, but US diplomacy has been anything but tough when it comes to encouraging reform in Bahrain.

For those of us who are not landowners and don't have the economic means to purchase and then free land, there are still many actions we can participate in …

2013 was a painful year in racial justice. Community leaders share their racial justice wishes for the new year.

Succeed or not, Republicans are trying to filibuster the effort to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed.

Workers' self-directed enterprises (WSDEs) are a response to capitalism's failure to deliver economic prosperity and socialisms' failure to deliver economic democracy.