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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new film, "Inequality for All," to be released September 27. He blogs at www.robertreich.org.
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Friday, February 28, 2020The Democratic Establishment is Freaking Out About Bernie. It should Calm Down. As wealth and power have moved to the top and the middle class has shrunk, more Americans feel politically dis-empowered and economically insecure. Today's main divide isn't right versus left. It's establishment versus anti-establishment.
Tuesday, February 25, 20205 Ways William Barr is Turning America into a Dictatorship William Barr was installed as Attorney General specifically to turn the Department of Justice into an arm of the Trump Coverup. And we've seen him do exactly that. Barr has corrupted and politicized the Department of Justice, working hand in hand with Donald Trump to bend federal law enforcement to the president's will.
Sunday, February 23, 2020The Real Cost of Doing Nothing We can no longer pretend that climate change, a wildly dysfunctional healthcare system and a yawning deficit in public investment pose insignificant challenges. Doing nothing or doing too little will make them far worse. Obsessing about the cost of addressing them without acknowledging the cost of failing to address them is dangerously irresponsible.
Friday, February 21, 2020How Democrats Clean Up the Messes Left By Republicans For decades, Democratic administrations have been cleaning up economic messes left to them by Republican administrations. Thanks to Donald Trump, they'll have to do so again.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020Mike Bloomberg Takes The Debate So far Bloomberg has spent more than $300 million on campaign advertising. That's more than Hillary Clinton spent on advertising during her entire presidential run. It's multiples of what all other Democratic candidates have spent, including billionaire Tom Steyer. Bloomberg has already spent more on Facebook ads than Trump, and more than Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg combined.
Sunday, February 16, 2020In his assault on justice, Trump has out-Nixoned Nixon What occurred under Nixon is happening again. Trump neither understands nor cares about justice. He cares about nothing but himself. Like Nixon, he has usurped the independence of the Department of Justice for his own ends.
Saturday, February 15, 2020Buying the Presidency Big money inevitably engulfs politics, which is why a handful of extremely rich people like Bloomberg have more influence than any comparable group since the robber barons of the early 20th century.
Wednesday, February 12, 20205 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp In order to truly stop the corruption of our democracy, we have to fix what's broken. We must get big money out of politics, end the flow of lobbyists in and out of government, and strengthen ethics laws.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020Donald Trump lies like most people breathe. The swamp was there before Trump got to Washington. One of the first tasks of the next president must be to drain the swamp and make sure our government works for the people, not corporations and special interests.
Sunday, February 9, 2020Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency - that should set off alarms The heart of Bloomberg's campaign message is that he has enough money to blow Trump out of the water. As if to demonstrate this, Bloomberg bought a $10m Super Bowl ad that slammed Trump in the middle of the big game.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020The Real State of the Union The Trump-Republican tax cut has been a huge failure. Nothing has trickled down to average workers. To the contrary, If fully implemented the 2017 tax cut will result in tax increases for most households in the bottom 80 percent.
Sunday, February 2, 2020The Real Reason America Is Divided The Great Divider knows how to pit native-born Americans against immigrants, the working class against the poor, whites against blacks and Latinos, evangelicals against secularists, keeping almost everyone stirred up by vilifying, disparaging, denouncing, defaming and accusing others of the worst. Trump thrives off disruption and division.
Thursday, January 30, 2020Presidential Primaries: What You Need to Know Every four years, our country holds a general election to decide who will be our next president. Before that happens, though, each party must choose its candidate through primary elections. But our system of primaries can be a bit confusing.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020The Biggest Political Party in America You've Never Heard Of If I asked you to name the biggest political party in the United States, what would be your answer? You probably have two guesses that come to mind: the Democratic party or the Republican party. Well, it's neither. It's the party of Non-Voters.
Sunday, January 26, 2020Trump impeachment trial: what you need to know Trump will claim that his forthcoming acquittal by the Senate clears him of all charges, just as he claimed attorney general William Barr's whitewash of the Mueller report absolved him of charges that he sought Russian help in 2016. He'll use both as "proof" that Democrats fabricated a plot to remove him from office.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020How Trump Manufactured the Hunter Biden-Ukraine Scandal For months, Trump and his Republican enablers have been selling a counter-narrative, to distract from Trump's effort to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, and Russia's attempt in 2016 to help Trump win the election.
Sunday, January 19, 2020Trump is on trial for abuse of power -- the Davos elites should be in the dock too As the Senate debates Donald Trump's future, chief executives, financiers and politicians will descend on Davos in the Swiss Alps for their annual self-congratulatory defense of global capitalism
Thursday, January 16, 2020A Perfect Recipe For Tyranny The system we now have featuring a president who lies through his teeth and two giant uncritical conveyors of those lies invites tyranny.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020Trump is the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar The American workforce is hobbled by deteriorating schools, unaffordable college tuitions, decaying infrastructure, soaring healthcare costs and diminishing basic research.
Saturday, January 11, 2020American firms aren't beholden to America -- but that's news to Trump Even when it comes to technologies linked to national security, American firms have no particular allegiance to America. They'll make and sell anything, anywhere, unless US law stops them.
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