The president’s plan does little but add another battering ram to his ongoing economic war against America’s allies.
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, a co-founder of The American Prospect, is a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, one of the books featured in the Prospect’s High School Essay Contest.
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The Financial Hardships of Trump’s Friends
Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich—already richer than ever—whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.
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How to Stop Trump
If America doesn’t respond to the calamity that’s befallen the working class, we’ll have Trumps as far as the eye can see.
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The Shameful Silence of the CEOs
The corporate statesmen of the mid-20th century have been replaced by sycophantic Dimons of the 21st—at a time when we need statesmen more than ever.
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While China Picks Winners, Trump Picks Losers
The Trump administration is eager to subsidize coal, but any help for the U.S. solar industry is decried as free-market interference.
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The Truth About an Untethered Trump
The president is now more dangerous than ever.
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Dollars for Decency
The corporate backlash against right-wing vitriol
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The Buyback Boondoggle Is Beggaring America
We need to make stock buybacks illegal, as they were before 1982.
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America’s Shkreli Problem
What does Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?
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Kushner’s Unconscionable Conflicts
Before I turn to Jared Kushner, let me ask: Do you believe the U.S. government does the right thing all or most of the time? The Gallup organization started asking this question in 1963, when over 70 percent of Americans said they did. Since then, the percent has steadily declined. By 2016, before Trump became […]