Robert Reich

Instead of governing, Trump has been insulting, throwing tantrums and getting even.

He has sacrificed the institutions of democracy to achieve his own selfish ends.

Republicans will cut $1.5 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid. Pell Grants, housing assistance, even cancer research are also on the chopping block.

While Republicans slip tax cuts past the Senate, Trump mounts one distraction after the next.

Whoever can put together elements of a governing coalition among these six will win future elections.

Big money is buying giant tax cuts, allowing Russia to interfere in elections, and killing Americans.

These kids grew up in America. It is immoral to now put them in the crosshairs of deportation.

Others are thinking about doing what Corker did. Sounding the alarm. They think Trump's nuts. Unfit. Dangerous.

Trickle down is a fraud. And taxing the rich doesn't slow growth.

Trump and Weinstein are both sexual harassers and predators.

Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born citizens, so it makes no sense rounding them up.

I urge you not to resign. America and the world need sane voices speaking into the ear of our Narcissist-in-Chief.

Out of 599 key government positions, Trump has made only 159 nominations.

States with at least 270 electors must award all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote.

Now Republicans are giving tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, they've stopped worrying about deficits.

As wealthy boomers die, $30 trillion will go to their children over the next three decades.

You can't give the rich and corporations a big cut and also reduce the deficit. Unless you borrow.

In France, an appendectomy costs $4,463. Here, it's $13,851.

His firing of Comey was a clear obstruction of justice.

There's no evidence Dreamers are taking jobs from native-born Americans. In fact, evidence suggests they've created more jobs.

It shouldn't be a political football. It should be abolished. It serves absolutely no purpose.

Both Trump and Google's Schmidt handsomely pay off politicians to get their way.

He's becoming more isolated than ever, abandoned not just by elected Republicans but by CEOs.

Wealthy progressives exert as much influence over think tanks and universities as wealthy conservatives.

Dems can't just be anti-Trump or move to the middle ground.

Only half of adults born in the mid-1980s are earning more than their parents in their prime earning years.

They are paying for his lifestyle while he's doing nothing to help theirs.

The howling manchild who occupies the Oval Office is being cut off and contained.

He has destroyed the moral authority of the presidency, sown division and hatred and brought us to the brink of nuclear war.

Trump's unwillingness to denounce hateful violence has been part of his political strategy from the start.