Op-Ed

Dean Baker: Suppose that we had someone focused on actual data involved in the budget debate instead of silly rhetoric?

That Israel has intimidated the BBC into presenting the theft of Palestinian land and the torture of its people as an intractable conflict between equals.

The election of 2012 was a mandate against US fascism and a window for the creation of a new movement.

Last time I looked, comparatively few of the bond market investors were actual American voters. So, why should they have any influence over what we choose to do anyway?

If Hostess can get away with driving down wages and cutting benefits, what will happen to your wages and benefits?

There is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.

Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way.

‘We are helpless and hopeless, but we are adapting,’ a doctor told a volunteer traveling in Baghdad this month.

The contrast between Obama's campaign promises and his performance in office during his first term is stark.

Coming to terms with personal and collective responsibility as the destruction our unfettered consumption has wrought becomes clearer every day.