Economy

Who was paying attention to Turkey? Some people were, of course, because that was their job.

The lens of real estate and finance gives us an interesting look at how our healthcare system is part and parcel of an edifice that enables the rich to …

Updates on polls showing most Americans want less inequality; why Tea Party types fixate on government debt; why French right-wing and other far-right parties gain support; and more.

Thanks to Dick Cheney's Halliburton loophole, anyone who lives near a fracking site is one of the oil industry's guinea pigs in a giant multi-decade fracking experiment.

Perhaps the largest and most dynamic grassroots movement in North America today is the anti-genetic engineering, Millions Against Monsanto food movement.

Republicans want to hold our economy hostage again, but they may not get the chance to do so, and more.

For the State Department to suggest that the Keystone XL pipeline will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White telling Phillip Seymour Hoffman that …

Dean Baker: The ACA is freeing people from health care related job-lock. This is a feature, not a bug.

Working-class Americans shouldn't have to face the burden of corporate tax loopholes that are letting corporations off the hook. Let's bring those offshore trillions back home, and start rebuilding …

The package of tax breaks that McConnell supports expire every year or two and are routinely renewed with little debate by Congress despite their huge costs.