Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power?

America is, in principle, a democracy, in which every vote counts the same. It’s also a nation in which income inequality has soared, a development...

PAUL KRUGMAN: Blame Republicans

PAUL KRUGMAN: Trump is no Nixon

Column: Inciting violence and unwilling to unite the nation, President Trump drives America to the brink

Last fall Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, appeared at a Trump rally, where he thanked the president for ending Barack Obama’s...

PAUL KRUGMAN: The economics of not dying

PAUL KRUGMAN: How many will die for the Dow?

Column: Rushing to reopen the economy won’t help American workers — it will kill them

As far as I can tell, most epidemiologists are horrified by America’s rush to reopen the economy, to abandon much of the social distancing that has...

PAUL KRUGMAN: Reality's liberal bias

PAUL KRUGMAN: An epidemic of hardship

PAUL KRUGMAN: What's up with stock market?

PAUL KRUGMAN: Is American democracy dying?

PAUL KRUGMAN: The covid-19 slump is here

PAUL KRUGMAN: We are No. 1

PAUL KRUGMAN: Three rules for the Trump pandemic

Step Aside for Powell and Pelosi

America’s catastrophically inadequate response to the coronavirus can be attributed largely to bad short-term decisions by one man. And I do mean...

Bernie is going for broke

PAUL KRUGMAN: When pandemic meets a personality cult

Bernie Sanders Isn’t the Left’s Trump

Look, I know the primaries aren’t over, and it’s still possible that Democratic centrists will get their act together. But Bernie Sanders is now...

PAUL KRUGMAN: What really matters

PAUL KRUGMAN: Bernie's not a socialist

The Triumph of Fiscal Hypocrisy

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will be centered around claims that he has done great things for the economy. And let’s be honest: The U.S....

PAUL KRUGMAN: Fiscal hypocrisy triumphs

Does It Matter Who the Democrats Choose?

At this point, the Democratic presidential nomination is very much up in the air. Not only is it unclear who will be the nominee; it’s unclear...

An F in microbe economics

PAUL KRUGMAN: Trump abuses his presidential tariff authority, too

PAUL KRUGMAN: Why does America hate its children?

PAUL KRUGMAN: Australia shows us the road to hell

Big Money and America’s Lost Decade

Elizabeth Warren has been getting a lot of grief in the news media lately. Some of it, no doubt, reflects campaign missteps. But much of it is a sort...

PAUL KRUGMAN: The cruelty of a Trump Christmas