Category: Politics

Dean Baker exposes the myth of “entitlements” and “grandparents stealing from grandchildren” for what it is: class warfare.

“Free speech” as a cover for violence is on the rise. Danny Katch investigates

Reversing the last forty years of upward redistribution of income in America begins with forcing the rich to actually compete on the same terms as the not-rich. Dean Baker lays out his thoughts.

By failing to value human rights, America loses. Aryeh Neier writes.

The battle for “digital sovereignty” on the Internet is a battle for control over its content. Will Wright explores.

Dean Baker explores the myth of the tax cut.

The dirty money laundered through third-world nations is the same money that goes to drugs and human trafficking. Virginia Rodriguez and Corina Rodriguez Enriquez school you.

Dean Baker considers a simpler tax structure than the currently fashionable, allegedly conservative plan.

Jimmy Wu takes a peek at a new Hong Kong report on the Chinese Communist Party Publicity Department .

We throw down our last-minute voting guide for the lazy, the perplexed, the poor, the huddled masses.