Robert Reich

Robert Reich30.10.2026

The Republican Party no longer has anything constructive to say about anything or anyone, so what is its closing argument in the 2026 midterm elections? Hate, fear, and bigotry. It’s all they have On Sunday, Trump claimed that if Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won, he’d “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores.” […]

Robert Reich11.10.2026

The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena — climate change and AI — pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm. Climate change is already causing floods, wildfires, drought, and record heat. AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid. Yet Trump […]

Robert Reich10.10.2026

Here’s today’s trivia question (which may turn out to be not at trivial at all when all the facts emerge): Who solicited money from a presidential donor in return for access to the head of the IRS over the donor’s taxes, was a Fox News host, was engaged to the son of the U.S. president, […]

Robert Reich22.09.2026

The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it. China and the United States are now competing for AI dominance. But what’s needed is a new mind-set about the meaning of “security” in the emerging world of AI — where the central question should not […]

Robert Reich21.09.2026

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power? Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs […]

Robert Reich16.09.2026

When I get together with certain old friends, our first ritual is an “organ recital” — How’s your back? Knee? Heart? Hip? Shoulder? Eyesight? Hearing? Prostate? Digestion? Hemorrhoids? The recital can run — and ruin — an entire lunch. My Epilepsy I don’t normally write about what ails me because I can’t imagine anything more […]

Robert Reich25.08.2026

The most important deal could happen today. Trump buddy Larry Ellison (one of the richest people in the U.S.) and his son David are a hair’s breadth away from being able to decide what many Americans learn about what Trump is doing to America. The only thing stopping them is California attorney general Rob Bonta’s […]

Robert Reich22.08.2026

What the wealthy and powerful — and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent — don’t want you to know. The U.S. national debt has officially surpassed $40 trillion, months earlier than forecasters had expected — because of billions of dollars in lost revenue from Trump’s invalidated tariffs, Trump’s tax cuts (mostly to big corporations and the very […]

Robert Reich21.08.2026

Trump says he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” military drills with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un” — whom he calls “unthreatening and respectful.” Kim Jong Un is unthreatening and respectful? Hello? Trump also says he’s miffed at South Korea for refusing to help […]

Robert Reich15.08.2026

All of this seemed confirmed by a recent headline in The Economist: WHY PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 55 ARE THE NEW PROBLEM GENERATION. I keep hearing that we Boomers are to blame for just about everything wrong with America — unaffordable housing (because we bought up most of the housing stock and now refuse […]

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The Republicans’ Closing Argument

Here’s How to Reduce the Existential Risks if There’s No Other Way

Pay to Play to Play to Pay: How the system now works

Xi and the Dilemma of AI

The Rise of AI Populism

Subject to Fits

How Trump Plans To Silence CNN, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver

Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?

Trump’s View of Everything in the World

Why We’re a Problem

The Republicans’ Closing Argument

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

Russia’s American Temptation

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.