Economy

Dean Baker: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense.

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society ... Sadly, the classrooms of this country haven't been spared.

Austerity can inflict long-term damage on people's pockets, psyches, livelihoods and lives.

The internal logic of capitalism results in structural violence that includes genocide, a review of Garry Leech's new book argues.

Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.

The global elite are not defined by their wealth alone, but through the networks in which they wield influence.

The case, Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, challenged the biotechnology company's existing patents on two genes associated with high risks of breast cancer, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Paul Krugman: Krugman-bashing is a huge industry, says the economist who believes he is doing the world a service by distracting these destructive people.

New report proves that overdraft fees are better for big banks than their customers.