Paul Krugman Is Wrong. Here’s Why Bernie Sanders’ Movement Will Provide Real Change

Robert Reich / Truthdig Jan 24, 2016 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman last week warned Bernie's supporters that change doesn’t happen with “transformative rhetoric” but with “political pragmatism” -- “accepting half loaves as being better than none.” Krugman just doesn’t get it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America 2016: What Happens When a Nation Gives Too Much Political Power to the Super Rich

Staff / Truthdig Jan 3, 2016 As the high-powered shenanigans of Las Vegas casino mogul and GOP bankroller Sheldon Adelson show, “Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered,” Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Opposing Hillary’s Corporate Campaign: A Response to Joe Conason

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Jul 6, 2015 In one Truthdig columnist's rebuttal of another, Scott Tucker takes on what he calls "a piece of Clintonista campaigning" by Joe Conason. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Economists Krugman and Stiglitz on Why Greeks Should Vote ‘No’ on the Referendum

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jul 1, 2015 Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman maintain that Greece must keep going it alone and vote "no" on the upcoming referendum on the bailout. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Greece’s Economy Looks Like Germany’s After World War I

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 16, 2015 “Austerity”—the redirection of funds away from government and public services and toward a country’s creditors—“has devastated Greece just about as much as defeat in total war devastated imperial Germany,” economist Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Paul Krugman’s Sloppy, Wet Kiss’ for Barack Obama

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 20, 2014 Historic Obama critic Paul Krugman made an about-face in his opinion of the president's performance in a much-discussed Rolling Stone essay on Oct. 8 that Salon columnist Thomas Frank, who believes Krugman's "relentless, one-man war on austerity… should have earned him a second Nobel Prize," finds incredible. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paul Krugman: Saving the Planet ‘Might Be Free’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 20, 2014 Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says he's been reading "two new reports on the economics of fighting climate change" that prove saving the planet could be "cheaper and easier than almost anyone imagines." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paul Krugman on ‘The Undeserving Rich’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 20, 2014 "The reality of rising American inequality is stark. Since the late 1970s real wages for the bottom half of the work force have stagnated or fallen, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled (and the incomes of the top 0.1 percent have risen even more)," the Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote Sunday in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Jobs, Hunger and the Shrinking American Way of Life

BLANK Nov 8, 2013 There’s some sobering news Friday about the still sputtering economy, and the repercussions of errant federal policies on the nation’s future. It doesn’t bode well, and everyone from single impoverished mothers to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman are worried. So why does nothing get fixed? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Some Labor Day Observations: Where Will the Fight Go From Here?

BLANK Sep 2, 2013 As the nation faces a continued and massive gap between the haves and the have-nots, we listen to some different voices and observations about where organized labor is, and where it might be headed. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How the GOP Takes ‘Glee in Inflicting Further Suffering’ on the Miserable

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 15, 2013 The latest criticism of the Republican Party launched by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman centers around the "monstrous" farm bill that passed through the GOP-controlled House last week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Krugman Battles the GOP’s ‘War on the Unemployed’

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 1, 2013 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman eviscerated the GOP on Monday for acting on the falsehood that life is "too easy" for millions of out-of-work Americans who can't find jobs by punishing them in the party's effort to "cure unemployment by making the jobless even more miserable." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )