Robert Reich

Robert Reich11.02.2026

AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated fairly. Here’s what we should we be considering now. May I be candid with you about the U.S. economy? It’s growing nicely, and the stock market has soared. But on what really counts to most Americans […]

Robert Reich25.01.2026

On Friday Minnesota shut down in solidarity. It’s the nation’s first general strike in response to Trump’s thuggery. Across the state, businesses are closed. People are not shopping. Workers have stayed home or called in sick. Labor unions are encouraging work stoppages. Residents are helping one another. It’s an economic blackout. Organizers are calling it […]

Robert Reich05.01.2026

The story of what’s happening in Venezuela is unfolding quickly and big questions are mounting. The immediate danger in Venezuela (and potentially in Columbia and Cuba) is chaos. Trump said, “We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” and that “we can’t take […]

Robert Reich22.12.2025

How older humans greet each other in the cosmos. I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office last week when someone I hadn’t seen for many years came in. When he saw me, he said “Bob! How are you? You look great!” I don’t look great. Since I last saw him, my […]

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 […]

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AI and the Coming Jobless Economy

Minnesota’s General Strike, and America’s

The Quagmire of Trump’s Venezuela

You Look Great!

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

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old