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The Journal has lost a longtime contributor. Journalism has lost a trailblazer. And I have lost a friend.  Ellen Brown, who penned The Journal's "Cost-Buster Cooking" column for seven years, died unexpectedly Jan. 14 after a surgical procedure. The first story I wrote about her appeared in 2009 with a headline, not written by me, that called her "a seasoned writer and chef." But I always thought of Ellen as saucy. And indefatigable. At my last count, she had penned 43 cookbooks. Can you imagine? They covered everything from how to make ice cream, something she taught me to do, to one-pot co...

"Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing commodities with which to trade, with necessarily diminished return to the labor of all; while the other looks to increasing the proportion engaged in the work of production, and diminishing that engaged in trade and transportation, with increased return to all, giving to the laborer good wages, and to the owner of capital good profits... One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, a...

A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System" of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems. Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed, and government relief checks and savings are running out; meanwhile, the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects s...

Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed, and government relief checks and savings are running out; meanwhile, the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution, especially given that the $600 or $700 stimulus checks Congress is planning on issuing will do little to address the growing crisis. Various plans for solving the infrastructure crisis involving public-private partnerships have been proposed, but they’ll invariably result in private investors reaping the ...

Project Censored has performed an invaluable service — shedding light on the most significant news that's somehow not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it and the lines are clearly drawn. That's not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrato...