Robert Reich

Robert Reich29.03.2026

Someone asked me this morning what we’re demonstrating for today. “I know what you’re demonstrating against — Donald Trump — but is there a positive purpose, too?” Ending the reign of King Trump isn’t the sole goal of today’s demonstrations. The purpose is much larger than that. Trump himself is not the cause of the […]

Robert Reich26.03.2026

Remember: Trump and his cronies in the Cabinet will always govern for their corporate donors and former clients — not for you. 1. Lines are getting longer at airports. Democrats want to fund the TSA, but Trump’s congressional Republicans refuse. They want all of the Department of Homeland Security to be funded, including ICE and […]

Robert Reich17.03.2026

A hard call, but there’s a clear winner of the stupidity. At a press briefing on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained about a CNN report that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran’s ability to disrupt global oil traffic by closing the Strait of Hormuz. “Patently ridiculous,” Hegseth told reporters, adding — even as the […]

Robert Reich11.03.2026

We are in an unnecessary war that the public doesn’t want, without a clear purpose or endgame. How to respond now? As we reach the 12th day of the war in Iran — with death and destruction rippling throughout the Middle East — it’s important to bear in mind where the real failure of this […]

Robert Reich07.03.2026

I haven’t retired. I still work. And frankly, I resent anyone thinking otherwise. It happened again this morning. I was in the locker room of a local gym when someone I didn’t know asked me: “So, are you retired?” I mumbled something indecipherable and looked away. I hate that question. Just as bad is: “So, […]

Robert Reich05.03.2026

Trump is actively destroying it. “We are just getting started,” Trump’s secretary of “war,” Pete Hegseth, said yesterday, adding that the attacks on Iran will escalate, with “death and destruction all day long.” So far more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in Iran, according to human rights monitors, including 180 children, most of them […]

Robert Reich02.03.2026

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is premised on a gossamer web of assumptions and inferences. Trump says Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb within days, will soon have long-range missiles capable of hitting the United States, and plans an attack. But he has offered no evidence. Most experts say he’s wrong. […]

Robert Reich28.02.2026

Two forces are stopping sensible regulation of AI. He’s one of them. Which is more important to you? Allowing Pete Hegseth to use artificial intelligence (AI) however he wants, OR preventing AI from doing mass surveillance of Americans and creating lethal weapons without human oversight? That’s the stark choice posed by the intensifying fight between […]

Robert Reich26.02.2026

What I tell parents of abnormally short children. I’m very short. At my zenith I was 4 feet, 11 inches. From time to time, worried parents of abnormally short children phone or email me seeking reassurance. I tell them that if they or their children are desperate, they can resort to limb-lengthening surgeries, growth hormone […]

Robert Reich22.02.2026

The Supreme Court’s tariff decision extends far beyond tariffs. It stops Trump from deciding not to spend money Congress appropriated, and from going to war without Congress’s approval. A 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court decided yesterday that Trump cannot take core powers that the Constitution gives Congress. Instead, Congress must delegate that power clearly […]

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Toward a Pro-Democracy Movement

Flying Already Sucks, but Trump Just Made it Even Worse

Trump’s Stupidest Cabinet Member

The Biggest, Most Tragic Failure of All

Please Don’t Ask Me if I’ve Retired or “Still Work”

The Moral Basis of Civilization

Trump’s Real Reason for War

Pete Hegseth and the AI Doomsday Machine

Heightism

Beyond Tariffs

The US Has Launched a Technology to Separate Belarus from Russia

Congress Continues to Thwart Trump

The Scientific Method Has Given Way to Faith in the Groundless

A Session of Black Magic — with Exposure