Trump

Robert Reich22.05.2026

Have we given up on a central goal we sought to achieve more than two centuries ago? I was born just after the end of World War II. The first half of the 20th century marked a particularly difficult, violent era. But the 21st century so far has been, well, one trauma after another. It […]

Robert Reich06.05.2026

And What Democrats Should Pledge to Do About it. How can the stock market be rising to record levels while jobs and wages are going nowhere, most Americans are paying higher prices for just about everything, and consumer sentiment is in the dumps? Answer: Stock prices reflect corporate profits, which have risen to record levels. […]

Robert Reich01.05.2026

Okay, so maybe I am grouchier — but I have reason. I was driving my car yesterday, heading home after doing some errands, when someone ran a red light and just about hit me. I swerved to avoid him, then stopped my car, got out, and stood in the middle of the road screaming at […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky30.04.2026

Trump canceled the trip of his representatives to Pakistan for talks with the Iranian delegation. Trump’s “universal soldiers”—son-in-law Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkoff—did not fly to Islamabad. There will be no talks. However, according to Trump, this does not mean an immediate resumption of hostilities. Trump attributes the breakdown of the talks to “internal […]

Kirill Benediktov28.04.2026

Unlike the assassination attempt in Butler and the (failed) attempt in Florida, Cole Thomas Allen’s attempt to break into the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the traditional White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held, was aimed at eliminating not only Donald Trump himself, but also the entire top leadership of the country. Along with Trump in […]

Robert Reich25.04.2026

Trump’s might-makes-right lawlessness will be his downfall. If we’re not careful, it will be America’s as well. Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States in January 2021, to his ICE and Border Patrol excesses (including murders in Minnesota), to his incursion into Venezuela and abduction of its […]

Kirill Benediktov14.04.2026

Tucker Carlson hints that Trump may be the Antichrist. After US President Donald Trump published a post on Easter Sunday (according to both Catholics and Protestants) containing obscene language directed at Iran, several of his former allies criticized him in the harshest terms. One of the president’s main critics was Tucker Carlson, once a huge […]

Robert Reich08.04.2026

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, […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky07.04.2026

Conservative former congresswoman urges the president’s inner circle to “stop worshipping” him. After Donald Trump published another ultimatum to Iran on his social media, in which he called the leadership of the Islamic Republic “crazy bastards” and the Strait of Hormuz the “&%$ Strait”, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the significant voices of […]

Robert Reich06.04.2026

We demonstrated against Trump’s assertion of royal powers, but it’s at least as important to follow the money. NAMING NAMES It’s important that we demonstrated against Trump’s assertion of royal powers. It’s at least as important to follow the money — and learn the identities of America’s billionaire royalty who crowned Trump in the first […]

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