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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 …

A sweeping anti-abortion bill would, among other obstructionist measures, single out for tax penalties women who exercised their Constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

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

As conflicts over land have increased in Argentina, resistance efforts by peasant farmers and indigenous communities have taken many forms.

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.

Facts, figures, and reason are often at odds with emotions like anger and resentment - and so it goes on the subject of welfare.

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 …