Robert Reich

Amazon's decision to split its new headquarters between New York and DC reveals much about the political and economical divides in America today.

Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot but he made the election into a referendum on himself.

Bombs mailed to political leaders. Threats against the media. A shooting in a place of worship. The hatefulness is unconstrained.

Never before has a president of the United States been so determined not to be president of all Americans.

Look at the living standards of most Americans, and you get a very different picture.

House and Senate Republicans have morphed into Trump acolytes and toadies—intimidated, spineless, opportunistic.

The drama that took place in the Kavanaugh-Ford hearings on September 27 was a window into our bullying culture of privileged white men.

In my thirty-five years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as this one.

Trump promised to “drain the swamp”, but he made it bigger and filthier.

Everybody on the inside knows what’s going on here.

The U.S. economy crashes when it becomes too top heavy—the rich don’t spend nearly as much of their income as the middle class and the poor.

If Mueller finds indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin, his presidency would not be authorized under the United States Constitution.

Musk seems to genuinely care about the future of humanity. But, like Trump, Musk loves to upend the status quo by breaking norms and maybe even some laws.

He’s creating a new form of trickle-down economics—where the benefits go to corporate executives and major investors, while the costs and risks land on the rest of us.

Russian attacks on our democracy are a clear threat aimed at the heart of America, but Trump is more concerned with his wall.

No democracy can function under a continuous bombardment of unmediated lies.

True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious or ethnic divisions. They aren’t homophobic or sexist.

The current occupant of the White House does not represent the views of the majority of Americans.

Even if the Pentagon budget were cut in half, the United States would still outspend China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea combined.

The crux of America’s crisis: Our system of government was designed to constrain power, but Trump doesn’t want his power to be constrained.

Only once in our history—in 1861—did enough of us distrust the system so much we succumbed to civil war.

The president's megalomania means there is no clear strategy.

Trump doesn’t want his base to know that the only way they can permanently become better off is by reining in the ownership class.

Trump promised to lower drug prices but he won't take on the manufacturers. When Americans buy drugs, they really buy advertising and political influence-peddling.

Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.

If America doesn’t respond to the calamity that’s befallen the working class, we’ll have Trumps as far as the eye can see.

CEOs of America’s largest firms have the power to constrain the most dangerous, divisive, and anti-democratic president ever to occupy the Oval Office.

To Trump and his merry band of climate-change deniers, boosting coal is fine. Helping solar is an unwarranted interference in the free market.

The next time you hear pro-gun NRA propaganda, here's how to respond.

Trump will do anything to maintain his power—even sacrifice American democracy.

Trump and Fox News turned humiliating people into an art form.

He is degrading the core institutions and values of our democracy. But America is fighting back.