Dean Baker
Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Posted: August 20, 2010 09:47 AM
Huffington Post

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Arianna Huffington, Co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post
Posted: May 24, 2010 04:16 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/financial-reform-a-win-fo_b_587728.html
Financial Reform: A Win for Wall Street, A Cold Shoulder for Main Street
It’s mission accomplished for financial reform
Unfortunately, it’s more of a Bush 43 “mission accomplished” than an Apollo 13 “mission accomplished.” That’s because the financial reform bill [...]

February 15, 2010
New York Times Editorial
Seven Paragraphs
There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture [...]

February 7, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times

Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet
By FRANK RICH
A funny thing happened after Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military: A curious silence befell much of the right. If this were a Sherlock Holmes story, it would be the case of the [...]

February 8, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times

America Is Not Yet Lost
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce. Instead of [...]

January 30, 2010
New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist
A Radical Treasure
By BOB HERBERT
I had lunch with Howard Zinn just a few weeks ago, and I’ve seldom had more fun while talking about so many matters that were unreservedly unpleasant: the sorry state of government and politics in the U.S., the tragic futility of our escalation in Afghanistan, the [...]

December 28, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Zero
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Maybe we knew, at some unconscious, instinctive level, that it would be an era best forgotten. Whatever the reason, we got through the first decade of the new millennium without ever agreeing on what to call it. The aughts? The naughties? Whatever. (Yes, I know that strictly speaking [...]

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech: A Just and Lasting Peace
Thursday 10 December 2009
by: Barack Obama, t r u t h o u t | Transcript
Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Oslo, Norway
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive [...]

New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist
Safety Nets for the Rich
By BOB HERBERT
The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we’ve allowed our country to fall into.
The lead headline, in the upper right-hand corner, said: “U.S. Deficit Rises to $1.4 Trillion; Biggest Since [...]

G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still “Out in the Cold”Friday 25 September 2009 by: Eli Clifton  |  Inter Press Service

Pittsburgh - World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with [...]