Robert Reich

The U.K. has had a tax on stock trades for decades, yet remains one of the world's financial powerhouses. That tax raised is pure gravy for Britain's budget.

The biggest are far larger today than when they were "too big to fail." Then, the five largest held 30 percent of all banking assets. Today they have 44 percent.

State legislatures are gerrymandering districts to reduce the power of people of color and Democrats and guarantee Republican control in Congress.

The media pay attention to personalities and haven't been attending to Bernie's message—or to its resonance among voters of all stripes.

Both tax plans from the GOP front-runners would either explode the national debt or cut Social Security, Medicare and assistance to the poor.

Republican efforts to stall the nomination of Scalia's replacement until after November defy the Constitution.

American corporations no longer make many products in the U.S. for export. Most of what they sell abroad they make abroad.

Trump's modus operandi is frighteningly close to that of Mussolini, Stalin, Franco and Hitler.

The Sanders economic plan has come under harsh criticism. But the critics are wrong.

The pent-up anger of millions who are working harder than ever yet getting nowhere has finally erupted.

For years, while the rich prospered, ordinary Americans have been suffering lost jobs and lower wages.

The GOP is torn between picking an opportunist and an ideologue. Let's hope they get it right.

Without a Republican Party, nothing stands between us and a veritable "Star Wars" barroom of presidential wannabes.

To affect real change—to health care, to Wall Street, to the environment—we need to rock the boat.

The Democrats offer two alternative ways of achieving progress. But are they both real?

That American health care is superior to Canadians' is not borne out by evidence.

How to answer the common charges that Americans won't elect a socialist. And that Sanders is too old.

I found people hovering between very different candidates from opposite ends of the spectrum.

In the 1980s, the Democrats began taking campaign funding from big corporations, Wall Street and the very wealthy.

The only way to contain Wall Street's excesses is by taking on its economic and political power directly.

A system caught in a spiral of wealth and power can only be changed by citizens pushing from the outside.

Politely countering arguments from hidebound conservative relatives needs a little preparation.

While other drugs companies don't raise their drug prices fiftyfold, they would if it led to fat profits.

Wanted: a strongman to bring jobs home, slam Wall Street, stick it to China, get rid of undocumented immigrants and block terrorists from getting into America.

They live in their own separate America and want to elect people who will represent them, not us.

The benefits of corporate citizenship should be removed from any company that abandons America.

The GOP wannabes have a responsibility to calm people with the truth rather than stir them up with lies.

Ridding the world of jihadists should not entail curbing liberties at home.

Telling the truth and advancing sound policies are now less important than trending on social media.

They think Trump will stand up for them against big corporations, Wall Street and big government.