Op-Ed

If current negotiations with Iran are blown up by a band of US senators, taxpayers should propose the 1% pay for a war with Iran, to put the consequences …

Dean Baker: The focus on the young invincibles is largely a distraction. However it is not an altogether harmless distraction.

Over the past 69 years, people have been dying and going bankrupt for lack of healthcare because of the Republican commitment to the healthcare billionaires.

Kerry is to be saluted for prioritizing the protection of humanity over short-term politics. But don't kid yourself about the short-term politics.

There's a new game in town: workplace loans, which should really be called company rip-offs.

Thom Hartmann: Corporate power has a strangle hold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture.

Since September 11, we have been conditioned for resilience - to expect vulnerability to violence and catastrophe rather than imagine a future of security and community.

Through his complicity via this silence, Pope Francis made a hugely inconsistent statement, unfortunately undermining the credibility of his position in defense of the poor.

In evaluating the allowing, we might subsequently discover and recover the power, sovereignty, freedom and rights handed over to the Corporatocracy.

Here's a New Year's resolution that participants in policy debate in Washington, and especially those in Congress, should make: be honest about your position on Iran.