Counterspin: Janine Jackson, author, program director, and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show Counterspin, interviewed Mark Weisbrot, economist and CEPR co-director, on Javier and the Argentine presidential election.

Albuquerque Journal: Extremist foreign policy is both a product of our corrupt political system, and a powerful force in its perpetuation.

Common Dreams: Ecuador’s presidential candidates represent opposing sides of the policy choices, goals, values, and interests that brought about the sharply contrasting results of the two preceding episodes.

San Jose Mercury News: The 2024 election could determine how much we can fix problems, or whether we move backward toward increasing inequality of income, wealth, and access to education.

Chicago Tribune: What would happen if anyone other than Trump were to win the Republican primary? Would Trump accept the result, or would we see a repeat of “stop the steal?”

The Nation: It makes no sense for Treasury to block aid, which can save hundreds of thousands of lives in the world, as well as jobs in the US– all at zero cost to the US budget.

The Guardian: The debt ceiling fight was never really about debt reduction. It’s part of a vicious cycle in which political power is abused in order to consolidate a system that is increasingly undemocratic.

On May 19, 2023, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?

The Buffalo News: Here are eight predictions for the coming year, in accordance with a hallowed tradition that I have previously not honored.

The Los Angeles Times: The way inflation is looking these past five months, the Fed should take a break from its interest rate hikes before it causes the next recession.