Robert Reich

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 […]

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 […]

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The Moral Basis of Civilization

Trump’s Real Reason for War

Pete Hegseth and the AI Doomsday Machine

Heightism

Beyond Tariffs

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

Vance Has a Problem: His Friendship with Tucker Carlson

Who Will Inherit Old Europe’s Tab?

Shards of My Memory

A Hard Landing