There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

It has now been more than 30 years since the butcher of Auschwitz Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the world that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. In 1992, in an address to the Israeli ...

The United States has been decisive in the retreat from multilateralism, and this process unfolded long before the advent of Donald Trump. It is Trump, however, who has cut the cant, shed the ...

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

It is now widely accepted that Iraq's alleged possession of nuclear weapons was the excuse, not the reason, for the Israeli/American desire to destroy Iraq. It should also be obvious than Iran's ...

In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes, ...

It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition minister for home affairs, had ...

“Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.” –Michel de Montaigne (1588), quoted in Comments by Richard Hughes Gibson, ...

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta.” The Wagner Act—or, more formally, the National Labor ...

There were many reasons for those of us living outside the Big Apple to celebrate the victory of Zohran Mamdani over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic ...

We are living in an increasingly lawless, shadowy world—where international conventions and institutions are not just ignored, but actively undermined, as powerful states engage in acts ...