Robert Reich

Robert Reich14.12.2025

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his “wishing each and every one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff” and boasting that now, under his presidency, “everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ again.” Then he claimed — contrary to […]

Robert Reich10.12.2025

As you know by now, I don’t like raising big problems without offering big potential solutions. The big problem I want to talk about today is that CEO pay has become utterly untethered from reality. When I was a young man in the 1960s and ’70s, CEOs typically made 20 to 30 times the pay […]

Robert Reich25.11.2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS — and could soon own Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN. The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios. Another billionaire owns Fox News, The Wall […]

Robert Reich19.11.2025

If we don’t raise wages at the bottom, we’re all cooked. The Big Mac has a problem that’s partly due to the corporation that makes Big Macs. The Big Mac has a big problem. According to the CEO of McDonald’s, fast food chains saw a double-digit dip in visits from lower- and middle-income customers in […]

Robert Reich14.11.2025

Why are Democrats so undisciplined and Republicans so regimented? The asymmetry explained Chuck Schumer couldn’t hold his senators together at a time when their unity and toughness were essential. Yet Trump cracks the whip and gets all Republicans to do his bidding. Does this mean Schumer should go? Yes. But the problem runs deeper — […]

Robert Reich03.09.2025

Today I’d like to talk about AI, because it’s real and it’s coming at us at extraordinary speed. AI is just getting started. I live a few miles away from the heart of where it’s being devised, and that heart has no beat. I ask questions of the people working on it, who tell me […]

Robert Reich24.06.2025

In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice. Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do. Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie […]

Robert Reich09.04.2025

In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice. Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do. Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie […]

Robert Reich08.04.2025

Trump wants to get it over early in his term, so he and his fellow billionaires can buy up everything cheap and then enjoy the ride upward. What’s really going on with the economy? I believe Trump and his billionaire buddies — the American oligarchy — have a plan. But before I get to it, […]

Robert Reich04.04.2025

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism: 1. Wisconsin Supreme Court vote Despite Elon Musk’s hysterical […]

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How Christmas Will Steal the Trump

How Can Outrages CEO Pay Be Stopped?

A Toxic Combo — Billionaires and the Media

The USA Needs to Raise Wages

Undisciplined Democrats and Regimented Republicans

AI is Our Real Future

A Conversation with Robert Reich

In Unity, There’s Strength to Confront Trump

Why We’ll Have a Recession

Additional Small Reasons for Modest Optimism

How Christmas Will Steal the Trump

Sweet and Sour Pork, Cantonese Style

Where do Russians’ dizzying incomes disappear to?

How Can Outrages CEO Pay Be Stopped?