Robert Reich

Many of you are still in shock about what happened a week ago today. Some of you don’t even want to read a newspaper or hear the news.I get it. A few of you are coping with the catastrophe by minimizing or denying it. Several friends assure me that a second Trump term won’t be much different from th...

The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

The appointment of RFK jnr to the health portfolio in the Trump administration is sending ripples of joy through the conspiracy theory driven anti-vax crowd. The joy that autism will finally be eliminated because, as every one knows, vaccinations have led to the explosive rise of autism among children.

The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary — the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more — are Howard Lutnick, who’s CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s co-transition chair, and Steven Bessent, the founder of the investmen...

What do card sharks, magicians, pickpockets, and tyrants do to hide their tricks? They deflect your attention. “Look over here!” they say, as they create a commotion that preoccupies your mind while they bamboozle you.

It's been just two weeks, but it feels like an eternity. It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss — not just the loss of the election but the seeming loss of America.

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I keep asking myself how the hell more than 70 million of our compatriots could vote for that jerk. For the purpose of thinking through what happened and what Democrats should do in the future, I've organized Trump voters into four groups.

Dems must condemn GM and other big corporations that are laying off workers despite record profits — and make loud and dramatic moves to stop them

At the same time Democrats and progressives are justifiably enraged at Trump's gonzo Cabinet picks, they're all but mute about corporate America's continued siphoning of economic gains to the top.