Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of “The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It.” Read more at robertreich.substack.com

Opinion: What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness

How to stop this? The first step is to understand it.

Robert Reich February 4, 2025

Opinion: Trump’s first week, the real story

Americans don’t abide aristocracy. We were founded in revolt against unaccountable power and wealth. We will not tolerate this barefaced takeover.

Robert Reich January 28, 2025

Opinion: Advice and consent or total submission?

The question is whether at least four Senate Republicans have enough integrity to refuse to confirm the worst of Trump’s nominees.

Robert Reich January 7, 2025
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OPINION: Who’s hurt when monopolies crash and burn?

Where were the federal regulators? Nowhere to be seen.

Robert Reich December 4, 2022

Where Biden stands six months in

Biden’s failure to make the right to vote his highest priority — to visibly fight for it, make it his own personal cause, and go on the road to take that cause to the American people — is not only bad policy for the nation. It’s also bad politics.

Robert Reich July 18, 2021

Is this the beginning of the end of American democracy?

I’m afraid history will show that, in this shameful era, Republican senators were more united in their opposition to voting rights than Democratic senators were in their support for them.

Robert Reich June 10, 2021

Workers matter and government works: eight lessons from the pandemic

Government must play an active role solving other fundamental problems — ending poverty, reducing inequality, battling climate change and fighting systemic racism.

Robert Reich May 24, 2021

Strongmen are losing the fight against COVID-19

One big lesson from the Covid crisis: lying makes it worse.

Robert Reich May 22, 2021

Biden’s first 100 days make the contrast with Trump abundantly clear

The first 100 days of the Biden presidency were also the first 100 days of America without Trump, and the two cannot be separated.

Robert Reich May 4, 2021

How to tackle the monstrous predicament Trump left behind

If this isn’t an impeachable offense, it’s hard to imagine what is.

Robert Reich February 13, 2021
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