…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…is the way it was then and today also. Little Boy Trump Goes to War Dean Baker CEPR We are now six days into Trump’s war on Iran, and his…

…war-making power historically by republics. I don’t have much to add to the substance of the immediate debate. Killing an Iranian general was certainly an act of war. It was…

…war is a war criminal. Wars take too many innocent lives; cost too much. Wars cause lasting damage to those who fight them and to their families; the costs of…

…fashion declared war on the United States, most recently be executing a U.S. citizen and threatening the same against his compatriot. Which leads to this perhaps counterintuitive suggestion. Declare war…

…big difference between the two wars is that Vietnam beyond some point engendered a massive anti-war protest movement, while the longer Afghan war has not even to now triggered anything…

…1926 Christmas distribution of bonuses in Wall Street, when finally added up, is expected to prove the most generous ever made except during some of the flush World War years….

…new argument: the war powers the Constitution assigned to Congress enabled it to pass laws that would help the war effort. That included attacking enslavement. As Confederate armies racked up…

…the importance of workers in the industrializing economy and to warn politicians that they could not be ignored.  Less than 20 years before, northern men had fought a war to…