Dean Baker
Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, with Mark Weisbrot.
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For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s handshake with Raúl Castro shows the way
Will Biden's #RoadtotheSummit lead to a dead end?
Looks like another ‘bad blue’ just bit the dust
Jamie McLeod-Skinner, as the replacement for Bad Blue Kurt Schrader, would not be beholden to any of the many corporate PACs that supported him.
New documents show how drug companies targeted doctors to increase opioid prescriptions
A trove of recently released documents offers the public an unvarnished look inside those relationships from the perspective of drug companies themselves.
As the planet warms, let’s be clear: We are sacrificing lives for profits
Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
Ukraine
The significance of Ukraine’s struggle certainly doesn’t lie in educating Americans, but perhaps it is finally making us reckon with the costs of war, as we’ve needed to do for so long.