Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The Washington Post’s defense of high drug prices ignores basic arithmetic showing patent monopolies mainly enrich executives and investors, not medical research.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Warnings of an “existential” population crisis in China collapse once productivity growth and basic demographic arithmetic are taken seriously.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Tim Walz’s exit shows how exaggerated fraud claims, media failure, and racialized politics can end Democratic careers.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
A critique of Washington Post editorials that distort healthcare and EV economics to align with Trump-style ideology.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The censorship of a 60 Minutes report underscores how concentrated wealth is undermining independent journalism and democratic accountability.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The Washington Post’s defense of massive CEO pay illustrates how billionaire-owned media justify inequality despite weak evidence that it benefits workers, shareholders, or society.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
A Supreme Court decision giving Trump greater control over independent agencies raises major risks for media freedom and democratic oversight.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The NYT’s coverage of Trump’s UK drug deal distorts drug-pricing facts, overlooks pharma leverage, and ignores public alternatives to funding innovation.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The real driver of today’s housing shortage is the lasting fallout from the 2008 housing bubble, not zoning rules or overregulation.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
In the Trump era, there is no doubt that we need a better media system. There are policies we could enact to make this happen.
