On getting your government to work for you instead of for lobbyists and politicos. Dean Baker writes.

How both the Right and the Left in Western countries agree on at least one thing in Syria: Syrians know nothing about their own country and need other nations to “liberate” them. Leila Al Shami writes.

Lara Merling investigates the newfound Wall Street love of Puerto Rico “investment.”

Allie Bohm takes the legal route on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica blow-up.

CEOs make 200-500 times as much as their workers. Why? Hint: it ain’t because they’re so valuable. Dean Baker reports.

Dean Baker takes another tack on tariffs: What if the medical profession was “free trade”?

The war on Iraq was a propaganda war where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us. Blair paid a price for his grandiose puffery. Bush has skated freely through the tempest.…

Mexico’s #SpyGovernment case dropped like a bomb in 2016, with demands for accountability and transparency. So why haven’t the government done anything about it? Giovanna Salazar reports.

Dean Baker surveys the latest legal attack on unions and workers’ rights.

On the subject of how privacy has always been reserved for the non-poor. Sam Adler-Bell reviews two books, Automating Inequality and The Poverty of Privacy Rights.