As the United States’ position of dominance in the world has been challenged in recent decades, economic sanctions have taken a more central position in its strategy for maintaining global power ...

Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

In a potentially game-changing move, 33,000 Boeing machinists in the Pacific Northwest, unionized with IAM District 751, are on strike after rejecting the company’s initial insulting contract ...

Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for “treatment-resistant depression” are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human being, the latest chapter in a story of race-based hierarchy and ...

The concept of the “ruling class” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions. This article traces the evolution of ruling class ...

Apparently unbeknownst to my Republican friends, the effort to cut ‘government waste’ has a long, bipartisan, history in the US. While Republicans point to Ronald Reagan as the original budget ...

As our rights are under attack by an arrogant clique of billionaires at home, the global beacon of freedom, Haiti, confronts one of ...

I want the FBI to be disbanded. Forever. I’ve wanted this to happen since 1970. When the Senate hearings led by Franck Church revealed the extent of the FBI’s (and the CIA’s) infiltration of ...

Two songs have brought me to tears since the death of my friend, Alanna Ford. The first was a new song from Warren Haynes called “Real, Real Love.” Haynes ...

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously ...

Predictably, the Democrats hemorrhaged working-class support and managed to lose ground in virtually every part of their base: the Arab and Muslim American community, Black voters, Latino voters ...