Dean Baker gets it right with respect to the latest news on GDP: A sharp drop in government spending, heavily concentrated in defense, ...

After his interview with Paul Krugman this morning Joe Scarborough wrote: Mr. Krugman's view is that Americans would be better off if...

Maybe I'm wrong but I think it is now  common  knowledge that mainstream economic theory doesn't take account of the role of energy ...

On Monday's Washington Post editorial page we have two of Washington's more self-important Very Serious People bloviating yet again ...

Juan Cole has a post on "Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton's Anger," http://www.juancole.com/2...

This is the subject of a stimulating piece in The Current Moment .  The short version, embellished with my cynical spin, goes like this: mor...

We were talking about evolutionary psychology and the problem of tribalism—that the cooperative impulses attributable to our biological her...

The income tax portion of Amazon’s 10K filing for fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 reads: The effective tax rate in 2011, 2010, and 2009...

I think maybe so.  There is a large photo of her above today's story in the Economy & Business section of the Washington Post entitl...

Today I will take a stab at dispelling what I think is widespread confusion over what constitutes mitigating climate change, as against ada...

I was at the ASSA session where Larry Mishel faced off against David Autor, and I came away thinking, like Jared Bernstein , that the EPI v...

I have been following the exchange between Paul Krugman and Steve Randy Waldman with great interest.  For one thing, as a textbook author...

Fungibility . Social insurance commitments are fungible across time; greenhouse gas accumulations in the atmosphere are not.  That’s why ...

Well, that really did it.  Obama has loudly declared that he will not negotiate with Congress over the debt ceiling.  He was riding high wit...

From this morning's New York Times : Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, signed on to the trillion-dollar [platinum] ...