Can the Post get over silly name-calling. I am quite certain that the folks at Brookings rightly consider the place to be centrist. It certainly has its share of liberals, but it also boasts many conservatives on staff. The normal journalistic rule is defer to an organization’s self-description, unless it has good reason to believe that it is inaccurate or misleading.

–Dean Baker

Dean Baker is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Read more about Dean.