Op-Eds & Columns
Economists and Future Living Standards
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 18, 2013
Fix the Debt's Fuzzy Math
Dean Baker
The Nation, February 20, 2013
We Need Job Creation, Not Talk of Debt-to-GDP Ratios
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), February 20, 2013
Obamacare Insurance Exchanges Will Help -- Especially in Vermont, Where They Are a Step to Single Payer Insurance for All
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), February 7, 2013
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, February 7, 2013
Anchorage Daily News (AK), February 7, 2013
Bradenton Herald (FL), February 7, 2013
Bellingham Herald (WA), February 7, 2013
Centre Daily Times (PA), February 7, 2013
Belleville News-Democrat (IL), February 7, 2013
Modesto Bee (CA), February 7, 2013
Macon Telegraph (GA), February 7, 2013
Boise Idaho Statesman (ID), February 7, 2013
Olympia Olympian (WA), February 7, 2013
Biloxi Sun-Herald (MS), February 7, 2013
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA), February 7, 2013
San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA), February 7, 2013
Rock Hill Herald (SC), February 7, 2013
Kennewick Tri-City Herald (WA), February 7, 2013
Raleigh News and Observer (NC), February 7, 2013
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), February 7, 2013
Kansas City Star (KS), February 7, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat (FL), February 8, 2013
Burlington Hawkeye (IA), February 9, 2013
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), February 9, 2013
New Bedford Standard Times (MA), February 9, 2013
Big Rapids Pioneer (MI), February 9, 2013
Marshfield News-Herald (WI), February 9, 2013
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune (WI), February 9, 2013
Stevens Point Journal (WI), February 9, 2013
Times of India, February 9, 2013
Arizona Sun (AZ), February 10, 2013
Sturgeon Bay Door County Advocate (WI), February 10, 2013
Fond du Lac Reporter (WI), February 10, 2013
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune (WI), February 10, 2013
Wassau Daily Herald (WI), February 10, 2013
Sheboygan Press (WI), February 10, 2013
Oshkosh Northwestern (WI), February 10, 2013
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI), February 10, 2013
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI), February 10, 2013
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), February 10, 2013
Lawton Constitution (OK), February 10, 2013
Kokomo Tribune (IN), February 10, 2013
Gainesville Times (GA), February 10, 2013
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), February 10, 2013
Free Trade in Medicare: An Alternative to Austerity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 21, 2012
Supplemental Security—Let's Build on This Vital Support for Disabled Kids
Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Vallas
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, December 19, 2012
The Bowles and Simpson Traveling Circus
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), December 12, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff and Baby Killing Doctors
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 3, 2012
The Serious People Are on the War Path
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2012
If the Budget Debate Had a Nate Silver
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 26, 2012
The Crisis of the Deficit Crisis Mongers
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 12, 2012
The Campaign to Fix the Debt and the Hair Club for Men
Dean Baker
Salon, November 1, 2012
Inequality: The Silly Tales Economists Like to Tell
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 30, 2012
Is the Budget 'Crisis' History?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 29, 2012
Americans Would Be Worse Off If Obama Were Defeated
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), October 25, 2012
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, October 25, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), October 25, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), October 25, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), October 25, 2012
Anchorage Daily News (AK), October 25, 2012
Providence Journal (RI), October 25, 2012
Idaho Statesmen (ID), October 25, 2012
Newsday (NY), October 26, 2012
Dallas Morning News (TX), October 26, 2012
Charlotte Observer (NC), October 26, 2012
Merced Sun-Star (CA), October 27, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), October 27, 2012
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), October 27, 2012
The Gulf Today (Bahrain, UAE), October 27, 2012
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), October 28, 2012
Lawton Constitution (OK), October 28, 2012
Kokomo Tribune (IN), October 28, 2012
Gainesville Times (GA), October 28, 2012
Lima Daily News (OH), October 28, 2012
West Bend Daily News (WI), October 29, 2012
Waukesha Freeman (WI), October 29, 2012
Keene Sentinel (NH), October 29, 2012
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), October 29, 2012
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 15, 2012
Tax Policy Not the Root of U.S. Economic Problem
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), September 25, 2012
Deficit Reduction, Wall Street, and Whales
Dean Baker and Ted Boettner
The Charleston Gazette (WV), September 15, 2012
U.S.–China Trade in a Time of Economic Weakness
Dean Baker
China/U.S. Focus, September 14, 2012
Prizes as Mechanism to Fund Innovation: We All Lose
Dean Baker
Eureka (The Times of London), September 6, 2012
The $ 1.2 Trillion Health Care Tax
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, August 21, 2012
Does Paul Ryan Know What’s in His Budget?
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, August 17, 2012
Representative Ryan’s Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can’t Take the Truth
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 13, 2012
Beating Back the CEO Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 6, 2012
The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout.org, July 30, 2012
The Health Care Battles in the United States
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, July 19, 2012
Federal Government Can Restore Full Employment – If Only it Wanted to Do So
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), July 5, 2012
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, July 5, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), July 5, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), July 5, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), July 5, 2012
Janesville Gazette (WI), July 5, 2012
West Hawaii Today (HI), July 7, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), July 7, 2012
Tuscaloosa News (AL), July 8, 2012
Tampa Tribune (FL), July 8, 2012
Danbury News-Times (CT), July 8, 2012
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), July 8, 2012
Centre Daily Times (PA), July 9, 2012
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), July 9, 2012
West Nyack Journal (NY), July 9, 2012
White Plains Journal-News(NY), July 9, 2012
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), July 21, 2012
Duluth News-Tribune (MN), August 31, 2012
The Regulation Monster
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 25, 2012
Liberals Working for the Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 18, 2012
Obama and Romney are Politicians, not Visionaries
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 9, 2012
The Supreme Scream: Obamacare After the Court Ruling
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 2, 2012
Home Health Aides Deserve a Living Wage
Dean Baker and Steven L. Dawson
The Washington Post, March 29, 2012
White House Burning: Putting Out the Wrong Fire
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, March 26, 2012
What’s This “We” Jazz, White Man? Paul Ryan Edition
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 20, 2012
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 19, 2012
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 5, 2012
President Obama’s Budget is Disappointing
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, February 13, 2012
Do Progressives Have to Be Loser Liberals?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 24, 2012
Time Is On Our Side: The Survival of Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 16, 2012
Economists May Contribute to a “Lost Decade” for America
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, January 10, 2012
Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 9, 2012
Obama Health Care Reform Is a Step Forward, Hopefully Toward Medicare For All
Mark Weisbrot
Dallas Morning News (TX), December 30, 2011
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, December 29, 2011
Syracuse Post-Standard (NY), December 29, 2011
Harrisburg Patriot-News (PA), December 29, 2011
New Orleans Times-Picayune (LA), December 29, 2011
Juneau Empire (AK), December 30, 2011
Gainesville Times (FL), December 30, 2011
Glens Falls Post Star (NY), December 30, 2011
Times of India, December 31, 2011
Marshfield News Herald (WI), December 31, 2011
Fond du Lac Reporter (WI), December 31, 2011
Stevens Point Journal (WI), December 31, 2011
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune (WI), December 31, 2011
Wasau Daily Herald (WI), December 31, 2011
Sheboygan Press (WI), December 31, 2011
Oshkosh Northwestern (WI), December 31, 2011
Manitowoc Herald Times-Reporter (WI), December 31, 2011
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI), December 31, 2011
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI), December 31, 2011
Savannah Morning News (GA), December 31, 2011
Lincoln Journal Star (NE), December 31, 2011
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), December 31, 2011
Waterville Sentinel (ME), January 1, 2012
Kennebec Journal (ME), January 1, 2012
Arizona Daily Sun (AZ), January 1, 2012
Boulder Daily Camera (CO), January 1, 2012
Centre Daily Times (PA), January 2, 2012
Duluth News-Tribune (MN), January 2, 2012
Arizona Daily Star(AZ), January 2, 2012
Keene Sentinel (NH), January 3, 2012
Orange County Register (CA), January 3, 2012
Medford Mail-Tribune (OR), January 4, 2012
Great Falls Tribune (MT), January 4, 2012
Keene Sentinel (NH), January 4, 2012
Olympia Olympian (WA), January 5, 2012
Allentown Morning Call (PA), January 8, 2012
Kokoma Tribune (IN), January 8, 2012
Santa Barbara News-Press (CA), January 9, 2012
The Supercommittee of the One Percent Goes Down in Flames
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 23, 2011
En Español
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 7, 2011
Bill Clinton Is Baaaaaaaaack!
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 3, 2011
How Global Trade Can Rein in Health Costs
Dean Baker and Jagdish Bhagwati
CNN Money, September 16, 2011
Does President Obama Want to Impose a Crushing Burden on Our Children?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 12, 2011
The Trick to Creating Middle Class Jobs: Stop Destroying Them
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), September 6, 2011
Hurricane Perry Bashes East Coast
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 29, 2011
The S&P Downgrade Market Plunge Myth
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 15, 2011
President Obama Doesn't Understand the Origins of the Deficit
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, July 27, 2011
Pain with the Consumer Price Index
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 25, 2011
Problems of U.S. Health Care Are Rooted in the Private Sector, Despite Right-Wing Claims
Mark Weisbrot
The Sacramento Bee (CA), July 21, 2011
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, July 20, 2011
Bellingham Herald (WA), July 21, 2011
Centre Daily Times (PA), July 21, 2011
Belleville News-Democrat (IL), July 21, 2011
Juneau Empire (AK), July 22, 2011
Lima Daily News (OH), July 22, 2011
Duluth News-Tribune (MN), July 23, 2011
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), July 23, 2011
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), July 23, 2011
West Hawaii Today (HI), July 23, 2011
Arizona Daily Sun (AZ), July 24, 2011
Lawton Constitution (OK), July 24, 2011
Allentown Morning Call (PA), July 24, 2011
Press of Atlantic City (NJ), July 25, 2011
Youngstown Vindicator (OH), July 27, 2011
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), July 28, 2011
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX), July 29, 2011
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA), July 31, 2011
Kokomo Tribune (IN), July 31, 2011
Orange County Register (CA), August 17, 2011
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA), September 1, 2011
If It’s Not Different This Time, Why Do We Have Economists?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 5, 2011
En Español
Work Sharing: A Full Employment Plan Too Simple for the Wonks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2011
Political Advice to Republicans on Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 6, 2011
Bernie Sanders Tries Some Clear Thinking on Prescription Drugs
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 31, 2011
Why Does Senator McCaskill Want to Bankrupt Our Children?
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 2, 2011
It’s the Health Care Stupid
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 26, 2011
The Battle is Over Money, Not Philosophy
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 25, 2011
Representative Ryan Makes a Clear Case
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 18, 2011
Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 11, 2011
Representative Ryan's Valuable Service
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 5, 2011
It’s Time for Representative Ryan to Man Up
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 4, 2011
Macho Men are Wrong on Social Security
Dean Baker
The Financial Times, March 30, 2011
Our Economic Pain Is Coming from Big Industry CEOs, Not Public Employees' Unions
John Schmitt
AlterNet, February 23, 2011
The Attack Against Social Security: The Power of Incompetence
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 22, 2011
The President as Storyteller-in-Chief
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 14, 2011
The Trouble With Corporate Taxes: Start With the Drug Companies
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), February 1, 2011
Hugh Jidette and Hugh Janus Go to Washington
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 3, 2011
Don’t Touch Social Security: Drive for Cuts Based on Deception
Mark Weisbrot
The Sacramento Bee (CA), December 2, 2010
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, December 2, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat (FL), December 3, 2010
Colombus Dispatch (OH), December 3, 2010
Walworth County (WI), December 4, 2010
Lima News (OH), December 5, 2010
Rock Island Argus (IL), December 5, 2010
Moline Dispatch (IL), December 5, 2010
Charleston Gazette (WV), December 5, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), December 5, 2010
Bradenton Herald (FL), December 5, 2010
South Bend Tribune (IN), December 5, 2010
Arizona Daily Sun (AZ), December 5, 2010
Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), December 5, 2010
Middleton Press (CT), December 6, 2010
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), December 6, 2010
New Haven Register (CT), December 6, 2010
Centreville Daily Times (PA), December 6, 2010
Providence Journal (RI), December 6, 2010
Sioux Falls Argus Leader (SD), December 6, 2010
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA), December 6, 2010
Press of Atlantic City (NJ), December 7, 2010
Saratoga Herald-Tribune (FL), December 10, 2010
Eugene Register-Guard (OR), December 12, 2010
Fresno Bee (CA), December 12, 2010
Sins of Commissions: What $1 Billion Can't Buy
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 22, 2010
Deep-Six the Deficit Commission Report
Dean Baker
The New Republic, November 11, 2010
The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe
Dean Baker
The Boston Review, November 11, 2010
The Deficit Commission Tsunami
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 8, 2010
Bewitching Hour for Campaign Craziness?
Dean Baker
Politico (The Arena), November 2, 2010
Keeping Fear Alive: The Deficit Hawks Push Their Agenda
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 25, 2010
Globalizing Healthcare: A Prescription with Benefits
Dean Baker
OECD Observer, October 2010
The Bipartisan Attack on Medicare
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, October 11, 2010
Is Defaulting on the National Debt on the Table?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 7, 2010
Senator Simpson’s Quick Budget Quiz
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 30, 2010
The Deficit and Our Children: Just the Facts
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 26, 2010
The Passage of Health Care Reform: Time to Talk Seriously About Health Care
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 21, 2010
Peterson-Pew Commission Uses Jingoism to Advance Budget Agenda
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 4, 2010
The Washington Post: R.I.P.
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 4, 2010
Tobacco Lobbyists Join Wall Streeters On Debt Crusade
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 21, 2009
The Return of the TARP Hostage Takers
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, December 10, 2009
“Commission” is Washingtonspeak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 1, 2009
Hostage Takers in the Senate
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 16, 2009
People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives!
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 26, 2009
Trade in Health Care: When “Free Traders” Become Protectionists
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 12, 2009
Can the Townhallers Be Left, Rather Than Left Behind?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 21, 2009
The Rally Against Obamacare for the Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 21, 2009
The Public Plan Option and the Big Government Conservatives
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 14, 2009
Are Mandates Mandatory?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 17, 2009
Governor Palin’s Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame the Washington Post
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 10, 2009
Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 7, 2009
The Doctor is in . . . Bangkok
Dean Baker
The Boston Globe, August 2, 2009
Good Medicine: Why Not for Everyone?
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 27, 2009
Taxing Health Insurance Premiums and Subsidizing Health Care Providers
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 20, 2009
It’s Not Rationing, Stupid!
By Dean Baker
Truthout, July 13, 2009
Life, Liberty, and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 6, 2009
Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 11, 2009
The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 11, 2009
Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 27, 2009
Malpractice
Dean Baker
Boston Review, May/June 2009
The Granny Bashers: Different Facts, Same Policy
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 16, 2009
Competing Views of Government: Universal Medicare or Government-Protected Insurance Companies
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 9, 2009
Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, February 25, 2009
The Solution to the Budget Deficit
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 23, 2009
The Peter G. Peterson Crew Is Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 23, 2009
Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 12, 2009
Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 12, 2009
Free Market Myth
Dean Baker
Boston Review, January/February 2009
Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), December 21, 2008
Homeownership Without Equity: What's It Worth?
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 15, 2008
If G.M. Were a Canadian Company, It Wouldn't be Asking for Help
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), December 11, 2008
Obama Has the Right Medicine
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008
IOUSA: Failed Scare Flick of the Decade
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2008
Health Care as Stimulus: The Best Way to Spend Big Bucks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 17, 2008
After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams, November 5, 2008
President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 4, 2008
CEPR Statement for the Next Administration
November 3, 2008, CEPR
The Deficit and Health Care Costs
Dean Baker and Murtaza H. Baxamusa
The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 31, 2008
The Return of Great Depression Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 13, 2008
Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 15, 2008
John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 15, 2008
Getting More For Less: The Not-So-Obvious Benefits of Publicly Funded Trials for New Drugs
Dean Baker
Milken Institute Review, July 2008
Barack Care Versus John Care: Health Care Under the Next President
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 30, 2008
Insurance Fraud
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 16, 2008
Universal Health Care or John Care
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 12, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 5
Dean Baker
The American Prospect Online, May 8, 2008
Kicking the Habit
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 18, 2008
Insurers Whack Elderly to Celebrate New Year
Dean Baker
January 7, 2008, Truthout
The Cost of Living
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2008
Edwards Comes Out on Top on the Economy
Dean Baker
CommonDreams.org, December 24, 2007
Outsourcing Healthcare
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2007
Millions of Americans in Economic Battle to Make Ends Meet
Heather Boushey
Alternet, October 13, 2007
From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 1, 2007
Uninsured Kids Are Protecting Bush's Ego
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 23, 2007
Stop Blaming the Boomers
Dean Baker
AlterNet, September 20, 2007
Needed for Labor Day: Something to Celebrate
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, August 30, 2007
Bush's Painful, Lopsided Economic 'Recovery' Continues
Heather Boushey
AlterNet, August 30, 2007
Fixing Health Care: Not Government vs. Market
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 10, 2007
The RX from "Sicko:" More Choice
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 2, 2007
Edwards Steps Forward on Prescription Drugs
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 18, 2007
The Drug Industry Protectionists
Dean Baker
International Business Times, June 11, 2007
Prescription Drugs: Where's the Free Market?
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 4, 2007
Loser Liberalism Versus Power Populism
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2007
Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, March 30, 2007
Celebrating Waste: Praise for the Medicare Drug Benefit
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 20, 2007
Small Government and the Medicare Drug Benefit
Dean Baker
Truthout, Feb. 27, 2007
Trade, Drugs and CEOs
Dean Baker
Truthout, Feb. 20, 2007
A Forward Looking Agenda for the Democrats
Dean Baker
Challenge Magazine, February 2007
Edwards Steps Out Front on Health Care
Dean Baker
Truthout, Feb. 12, 2007
Hooked on Drug Money: Will Congress Take a Stand on Medicare?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 10, 2007
Drug Scandals Keep Flowing: Time for New Thinking
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 20, 2006
Expanding Medicare: A Step Toward Universal Health Ins. for Americans
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, December 17, 2006
Will the Democrats Cut and Run on the Medicare Drug Bill?
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 29, 2006
Fixing Medicare Drugs & Attacking Crime
Dean Baker
Sun-Sentinel (FL), October 19, 2006
Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
Dean Baker
Truthout, Sep. 27, 2006
Prescription Drug Scams
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 29, 2006
Victory in the Medicare Drug War?
Dean Baker
In These Times, March 21, 2006
Scoring a Drug Fix
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, January 5, 2006
Bush Drug Plan an Expensive, Complicated Turkey
Dean Baker
Sacramento Bee, November 25, 2005
Lawsuit and Language Abuse Week
Dean Baker
Contra Costa Times, January 30, 2005
Overcoming the Bubble Economy
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, October 12, 2004
Seniors Are Paying the Price for Medicare Scams
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, September 9, 2004
Labor Day 2004: Not Much to Celebrate
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 5, 2004
Prescription Drug Imports Are a Good Start
Mark Weisbrot
Fresno Bee, November 23, 2003
Prescription for Pain: The Medicare
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 20, 2003
Bush in Africa: Compassionate Protectionism?
Mark Weisbrot
Bangkok Post, July 12, 2003
A Haywire Patent System Picks Your Pocket at the Drugstore
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2003
The Cost of Protectionism in Pharmaceuticals
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Information Tribune Services, October 24, 2002
Lying on Top
Dean Baker
January 22, 2002
Protecting Pharmaceutical Companies from the Threat of Bio-Terrorism
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, November 1, 2001
Dying for Patents
Dean Baker
October 29, 2001
Non-Patients Need a Bill of Rights
Mark Weisbrot
Savannah Morning News, July 7, 2001
Meet the New Economy - Same as the Old Economy?
Mark Weisbrot
Huntsville Times (AL), June 10, 2001
Why We Need Free Trade for Life Saving Medicines
Mark Weisbrot
Baltimore Sun, March 21, 2001
Liberals Step to Bush's Barren Beat
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
Post Election Bipartisanship Could Spell Trouble for Social Security, Medicare
Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 24, 2000
Competing Drug Plans Won't Stop the Pain
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, October 11, 2000
Populism Sells: Now How About the Real Thing?
Mark Weisbrot
Albany Times Union, August 29, 2000
Rich Countries Offer Empty Promises to the World's Poor
Mark Weisbrot
Miami Herald, July 27, 2000
Battle for Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Heats Up
Mark Weisbrot
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, July 14, 2000
False Poverty: The Nation Can't Afford To Care For Its Elderly
Dean Baker
Aging Today, March/April 2000
The New Economy: A Millenial Myth
Dean Baker
Dollars and Sense, March/April 2000
RX for Medicare
Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2000
Drug Companies Fight Prescription Benefits for Seniors
Mark Weisbrot
Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 7, 2000
The Real Drug Crisis
Dean Baker
In These Times, August 21, 1999
Clinton's Medicare Plan is a Far Cry From Needed Health Care Reform
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, July 22, 1999
The Real Cure for H.M.O.'s
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Media Tribune Services, October 14 1998
Medicare Scams
Mark Weisbrot
The Seattle Times, August 22, 1997
Medicare Cuts: Courage or Cowardice?
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1997
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