Join the Ku Klux Klan and get 10 percent off on your next Fed Ex shipment! Okay, the National Rifle Association isn’t quite the Klan. But it’s getting closer. For years, big corporations had welcomed the opportunity to accumulate more customers by giving discounts to NRA members, even if they pack assault rifles. Yet in […]
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 Meaning of America
When Trump and his followers refer to “America,” what do they mean? Some see a country of white English-speaking Christians. Others want a land inhabited by self-seeking individuals free to accumulate as much money and power as possible, who pay taxes only to protect their assets from criminals and foreign aggressors. Others think mainly about […]
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Trump’s Big Buyback Bamboozle
Trump’s promise that corporations will use his giant new tax cut to make new investments and raise workers’ wages is proving to be about as truthful as his promise to release his tax returns. The results are coming in, and guess what? Almost all the extra money is going into stock buybacks. Since the tax […]
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Trump’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy
If Robert Mueller finds that Trump colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election, or even if Trump fires Mueller before he makes such a finding, Trump’s supporters will protect Trump from any political fallout. Trump’s base will stand by him not because they believe Trump is on their side, but because they define themselves […]
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Reclaim a Tradition
Here’s the original 1989 prospectus for The American Prospect, laying out the challenge facing liberalism at the end of the 1980s and the corresponding mission of the magazine as the founders envisioned it.
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The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn’t technology or globalization. It’s the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
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Public Debt and Economic Growth
A stronger economy is the key to lightening the load.
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The Xenophobe Party
Senate Republicans are using the Boston attacks as an excuse to stymie immigration reform.
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Bi-Partisanship We Don’t Need
The president offers to cut Social Security, and Republicans agree.
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Why the AFL-CIO Is Embracing Immigration Reform
An agreement between the venerable labor union and the Chamber of Commerce will make it easier to unionize low-wage workers.
