Robert Reich

Broadcast June 7, 2001 Presidents are lucky if they accomplish one big thing in a term of office. The American political system is designed to make even one big thing difficult to get done, especially if there’s no economic or foreign crisis to coral public support. President Bush has already got done one very big […]

The Washington Post The Great American Debate about how to use the largest budget surplus in history has come to a choice between the giant $1.2 trillion tax cut recently passed by the Senate and the gargantuan $1.6 trillion cut passed by the House. This week House-Senate conferees begin picking a figure between these two. […]

The Financial Times Like generals preparing to fight the old war, the world’s central bankers are still obsessed with inflation. They should be looking forward to the real enemy: deflation. Look around the world and what you see are identical policies in favour of trimming public spending, cutting debt, raising interest rates and squeezing money […]

The New Republic Special Endorsement Issue: I worked closely with Al Gore in the first Clinton administration, and I admire him. Gore is earnest and smart. For the past seven and a half years he’s taken on god-awful projects that no one else wanted to do–like “reinventing government”–and has done them well. He’s been loyal […]

The Los Angeles Times In this election cycle, those ‘issues ads’ he created last time are likely to be exceeded by the GOP. You’d be forgiven if you thought of the contest for the presidency as two big battles–first, the primary battle to choose each party’s nominee, which this year is effectively over, and then […]

The London Observer Al Gore is finally on a roll. But where will it take him? This past week he’s been telling Americans ‘we’ve got to put you first’ and not ‘the ones with connections, the ones with wealth, the ones with power above and beyond what the average family has in this country’. He’s […]

The Wall Street Journal Pundits have a host of explanations for why Bill Bradley’s and John McCain’s candidacies failed: Mr. Bradley failed to respond to Al Gore’s attacks; Mr. McCain blundered in attacking the religious right; Mr. McCain stole Mr. Bradley’s thunder; the public isn’t that interested in reform after all. The real explanation is […]