Robert Reich

The cumulative effect can create the impression of someone who, at worst, is guilty of serial cover-ups or, at best, shades the truth.

Sanders has pushed Hillary to take more progressive positions on issues ranging from the minimum wage to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Keystone XL pipeline, Wall Street and Social Security.

Donald Trump’s more establishment than Hillary Clinton, inheriting a fortune, bribing politicians and using bankruptcy to leave creditors and workers holding the bag.

Real patriotism isn’t cheap. It requires being willing to pay taxes in full rather than seeking tax loopholes and squirreling away money abroad.

Inclusive patriotism is our national creed. It is born of hope. Mean-spirited, exclusive patriotism is new to our shores. It is born of fear.

She needs a big idea that gives her candidacy a purpose and rationale – and, if she’s elected president, a mandate to get something hugely important done.

Are there no principled Republicans whose loyalty to the nation is greater than their eagerness to win back the White House?

Your courage in taking on the political establishment has emboldened millions of us to stand up and demand our voices be heard.

Bernie’s successes don’t help Trump. To the contrary, they are bringing into politics millions of young voters whose values are opposed to those of Trump.

Many Hillary supporters don’t want Bernie to keep campaigning, and many Bernie supporters don’t want to root for Hillary if she gets the nomination.

What do you need to know—not only about the new world of work but also about yourself—as you graduate and launch into the working world?

In my travels around the country I’ve found many who support Trump precisely because of the qualities he’s being criticized for having.

Because the rules of the game – including labor laws, pension laws, corporate laws and tax laws – have been crafted by those at the top.

Wealth is transferred in access to the best schools and universities. Those with college degrees are overwhelmingly from wealthier families.

A good number may decide to sit out the election because of their revulsion for politics as usual—and the conviction that it’s rigged by the establishment.

Forget gridlock. Here is a list of policies where both sides agree.

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.