Robert Reich

ARE PRESIDENTS ABOVE THE LAW?  Donald Trump thinks presidents should be allowed to commit crimes. Rubbish. Trump claims that quote, “A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNIT Y...

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THE CASE AGAINST RFK JR. RFK Junior is not who you think he is. It pains me to say it, but he is a dangerous nutcase. He claims to want to heal America, but his vision for our future is taint...

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IS IT INFLATION? OR IS IT GREEDFLATION? It’s a paradox. Inflation is dropping but prices aren’t coming down. How can this be? Because corporations have enough monopoly power to keep them h...

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HOW TRUMP IS FOLLOWING HITLER’S PLAYBOOK You’ve heard Trump’s promise: TRUMP: I’m going to be a dictator for one day. History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When dem...

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WHO’S TO BLAME FOR OUT-OF-CONTROL CORPORATE POWER?     One man is especially to blame for why corporate power is out of control. And I knew him! He was my professor, then my boss. His name�...

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MY ULTIMATE HISTORY CRASH COURSE Are we in a second Gilded Age? Is Trump really a Fascist? Why are we so politically polarized? How did corporations take over our politics?  To understand the...

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THINK TIPPING IS OUT OF CONTROL? WATCH THIS. TWO DOLLARS AND THIRTEEN CENTS AN HOUR. That’s how much millions of American workers are paid under the federal subminimum wage — which was set...

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TRUMP’S CHAOS AGENDA  Donald Trump wants you to be disgusted. He wants you to be cynical. And he definitely doesn’t want you to watch this video. Why? Because that’s how he wins in 2024....

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THE SILENT REVOLUTION IN AMERICAN ECONOMICS I don’t think you’re expecting what I’m about to say, because I have never seen anything like this in fifty years in politics. For decades I’...

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FIVE BIGGEST BORDER LIES DEBUNKED  Republicans are lying about immigrants and the border. Here are five of their biggest doozies. 1. They claim Biden doesn’t want to secure the border Wel...

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CORPORATIONS HAVE BEEN SALIVATING OVER THIS SCOTUS DECISION  The Supreme Court seems to have no problem regulating women’s bodies . But when it comes to regulating big business, they may be r...

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BIDEN VS. TRUMP: WHOSE ECONOMIC PLAN IS BETTER FOR YOU?  Trump failed to deliver on his number one campaign promise: President Trump presided over a historic net loss of nearly 3 million Ame...

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CAN WE STILL FIND COMMON GROUND?  Many Americans today worry that our nation is losing its national identity. Some claim loudly that the core of that identity requires better policing of our ...

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HOW AMAZON IS RIPPING YOU OFF Shopping on Amazon? Stop! Watch this first. Amazon is the world’s biggest online retailer. This one single juggernaut of a company is responsible for nearly 40% ...

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BILLIONAIRES DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS SUPREME COURT CASE A majority of Americans support a wealth tax. But, surprise, surprise, the wealthy Republican megadonors who’ve been plying...

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A WARNING FROM 1994 OF A TWO-TIERED SOCIETY As secretary of labor, I thought it important to explain why the Democrats had lost both the House and the Senate in the 1994 midterm elections. I att...

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WHY WE NEED TO BAN COLLEGE LEGACY ADMISSIONS Children of the super rich are more than twice as likely to get into America’s most elite universities as middle-class students with the exact sam...

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NO LABELS ISN’T WHAT IT CLAIMS TO BE The “No Labels” Party is not what it pretends to be. It’s a front group for Donald Trump. Now I understand, if you’re sick of the two major partie...

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FROM ROBBER BARONS TO BEZOS: IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? Ultra-wealthy elites…Political corruption…Vast inequality… These problems aren’t new — in the late 1800s they dominated the c...

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SOCIALISM FEAR-MONGERING IS BANANAS  Don’t get scared. I’m going to talk about something that’s caused a lot of fear mongering. You see, advanced countries, like the United States, pool ...

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