Nation Topics - Dean Baker | The Nation

It took thirty years for inequality to become this dramatic, and it will be a generational project to reverse it.

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

A second round of responses from economists and wonks to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”

There are some seriously progressive initiatives underway in the 112th Congress, and they deserve more attention than they're getting.

In their assault on public sector workers, Republicans continue to point to so-called "unfunded" pension programs as a symbol of broken government. But how did the pensions become unfunded in the first place?

GOP leaders are going to the mat for the wealthy while abandoning those who lost their jobs because of Wall Street's recklessness.

According to Baker, the report released by Obama's deficit commission is "the wrong answer to not a problem."

Is the recession really ending? What does Elizabeth Warren's sort-of appointment mean? Dean Baker has answers on Grit TV.

Guest-hosting The Ed Show, Nation Washington Editor Christopher Hayes examines the GOP's farcical cross-examination of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic Policy Research, says that though Obama's financial reforms may ultimately result in greater transparency in the way banks and big corporations do business, the changes will do little to combat rampant economic inequality and unemployment.