Robert Reich Posts

Trump exploited our divisions to gain and try to keep power. He didn’t just pour salt into our wounds. He planted grenades in them. And now he and his enablers appear willing to pull the pins.

Barring a miracle, Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed on Monday as the ninth justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a travesty of democracy.Here's How to Track Your Mail-in Ballot in Each State

Make this a blowout victory for Joe Biden and Democrats down the ballot, and stop Trump from stealing this election.

Republicans know if they let the people decide who should appoint the next Supreme Court justice, their last chance to implement minority rule could be lost.

No one speaking at the Republican convention mentioned Trump’s abandonment of the Paris Agreement, his rollback of environmental regulations, or his boundless generosity to the fossil fuel industry.

Donald Trump said that June’s jobs report, which showed an uptick, proves the economy is “roaring back.” Rubbish.

In the highest reaches of corporate America, there's been an outpouring of solidarity with those protesting brutal police killings of black Americans and systemic racism. But most of this is for show.

You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J. Trump is no longer president of the United States.

So what is Trump’s reelection strategy? Reopen the economy, despite America's growing coronavirus death toll

The utter chaos in America’s response to the pandemic is tailor-made for Donald Trump, who has spent a lifetime exploiting chaos for personal gain and blaming others for losses.

As the Senate debates Donald Trump’s future, chief executives, financiers and politicians have assembled in Davos, Switzerland, for their annual self-congratulatory defense of global capitalism. The events are not unrelated.

Corporate social responsibility is a sham.

The consequences of Trump’s and the Republicans’ excessive corporate giveaways and their failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day.

There are basically only five ways to accumulate a billion dollars, and none of them has to do with being successful in free market capitalism.

Trump has been funneling government dollars into his own pockets ever since he was elected.

Donald Trump and his enablers are hoping that a strong economy will help the American people look past the damage they are doing to the country. That’s why Trump is constantly crowing about job numbers and the stock market in order to paint a rosy picture of the economy.

Wealthy corporations and their enablers have spread 5 big lies about unions in order to stop workers from organizing and to protect their own bottom-lines.

We are now in a trade war with the second-largest economy on Earth.

Call it socialism for rich bankers.

What does a megalomaniacal president of the United States do when he’s cornered? We’ll soon find out.