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 ...

U nlike its distant galactic cousin, this Death Star doesn’t orbit…it squats. Vast and immovable, it rises like a bricked-up Mongol yurt on steroids, shimmering out of the Khorasan grasslands ...

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 UK house of Commons this week voted 385 to 26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a grassroots group active in protesting Britain’s complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza, as a terrorist ...

Margaret Peacock is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War and coauthor of A Deeper ...

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

Setting aside the prospect of massive job losses from AI and the troubling realization that AI models lie and proliferate misinformation, do we really want to push our climate to the brink because ...

"There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States." Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger ...

Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May which ...

In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the Gaza ...

Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy By Michael Hudson ...