Op-Eds & Columns

Saving the Planet or 'Fixing' the Debt

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2012

Romney’s Global Warming Joke Should Haunt Him

Dean Baker
Truthout, November 5, 2012

The D.C. Blackouts and Global Warming
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 9, 2012

Hot Air Over Gas Prices
Dean Baker and Bruce Bartlett
Politico, May 30, 2012

Do Environmentalists Have An Interest In Who Controls Oil Resources?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 2, 2012
En Español

Budget Balancers and Global Warmers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 3, 2012

The Imaginary World in Which Washington Lives
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 23, 2011

Will Politicians Pay a Price for Leaving 15 Million People Unemployed?
Dean Baker
WashingtonPost.com, September 10, 2010

Doing It for Our Children: Cutting Social Security and the BP Oil Spill
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 28, 2010

Ben Bernanke as Public Intellectual? Are You Serious?
Dean Baker
The Prospect (UK), December 16, 2009

Goldman Sachs: Friend of Planet Earth
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 14, 2009

Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2009

Myths About U.S. Economic Model May Not Survive the World Recession
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, August 14, 2009

The Global Warming Lie Detector
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 29, 2009

More Fiscal Stimulus is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline
Mark Weisbrot  
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, April 14, 2009 

Obama Has Opportunity to Reverse Mistake on Offshore Drilling
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, January 22, 2009

Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 12, 2009

Obama Has the Right Medicine
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008

After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams, November 5, 2008

John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet, II
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 1, 2008

Let's Get Down to Gas Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 11, 2008

The Compromise "Drill Anywhere" Plan
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 4, 2008

Offshore Drilling Won't Help But "Green Stimulus" Can
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2008

John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 23, 2008

The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 7
Dean Baker
The American Prospect Online, May 22, 2008

The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 5
Dean Baker
The American Prospect Online, May 8, 2008

Some Green Ideas to Get the Economy Moving
April 22, 2008

A Green Lining
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 14, 2008

Selective Thinking
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 29, 2007

Gas Tax Equals Bridge Safety
Dean Baker
BusinessWeek, September 4, 2007

The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2007

For the Sake of the Planet, Privatize Amtrak
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 23, 2007

Rush, Rush, Rush
David Rosnick
Policy Innovations, February 2, 2007

If Environmentalists Cared About Global Warming...
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 29, 2007

Bush Administration Has Done Much to Provoke Hostility at UN
Mark Weisbrot  En español
Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI), October 7, 2006

Can Clean Insurance Fend Off Global Warming?
Dean Baker
Truthout, Aug. 9, 2006

Insurance by the Mile: A Simple Way to Slow Global Warming
Dean Baker
Harper's Magazine, June 1, 2006

More Hot Air Over the Arctic
Dean Baker
Harper's Magazine, May 11, 2006

Taxing the Oil Companies' Hot Air
Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker
Duluth News Tribune, January 30, 2006

A Marshall Plan for the Gulf Coast
John Schmitt
Topeka Capital-Journal (KS), October 22, 2005 

Patriots Take the Train
Dean Baker
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sep. 21, 2001

Megamergers and the MAI
Mark Weisbrot
USA Today, August 12, 1998