Patrick Carr is a freelance writer and researcher who specializes in economics, current events, international relations, and environment issues. He has worked as a staff member on a number of independent publications, and his work has appeared on DailyKos and Counterpunch.
Among the more pessimistic and realistic of the economic commentators, questions regarding the long-term stagnation of wages has become a topic of serious interest. Why, when the American economy is...
In mid-August, US State Department officials criticized Russia over its newly launched “abnormal” and “disturbing” inspection satellite. These claims connote a belief held by the American...
Albert Camus once wrote: “When a war breaks out, people say: ‘It's too stupid, it can't last long.’ But though a war may be ‘too stupid,’ that doesn't prevent its lasting.” While he was...
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
In early February, it was reported that the United Nations envoy to Myanmar had uncovered numerous mass graves filled with the chemically-charred corpses of an untold number of Rohingya Muslims,...
Come February, Janet Yellen will not be returning as Chair of the Federal Reserve. That title will belong to monetary moderate Jerome Powell, who was recently chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
Today’s North Korea is not Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The latter was inspected by the UN on multiple occasions with the full knowledge of the regime that no doomsday weapons would be uncovered. The...
NAFTA in its current form cannot and should not stand until Mexico receives a fair deal from the United States. I have always conceded that the president’s criticism of the 1994 trade deal...
For some young people, myself included, the name Alex Jones is not unfamiliar. He’s the guy from the gay juice-box video. In one of the most classic items in the Infowars canon, Jones...
There is a reason the National Alliance on Mental Illness calls its outreach program “Ending the Silence”. When assessing our collective well-being and potential, mental health is a...
