More than ever before, November’s midterms will be a contest between the bullies and the bullied.
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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Why I’m Betting on Millennials This November
In my 35 years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as this one.
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The Three Big Lessons We Didn’t Learn from the Economic Crisis
A decade after the meltdown, Wall Street’s political clout is as great as ever, clearing the way for another crisis.
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Kavanaugh Will Further Divide Us
If Kavanaugh is confirmed, it will be due to a process that has violated all prevailing norms for how someone should be chosen to be a Supreme Court justice.
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The Next Crash
The real root of the Great Recession wasn’t a banking crisis. It was the growing imbalance between the capacity of most people to buy, and what they as workers could produce. That imbalanace is back.
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Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency.
Impeachment would remedy Trump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But it would not remedy Trump’s unconstitutional presidency.
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Musk, Trump, and the Second Gilded Age
Unlike Trump, the Tesla Motors CEO seems to genuinely care about the future of humanity. But, like Trump, Musk loves to upend the status quo by breaking norms and maybe even some laws.
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How Trump’s War on Regulation Is Trickle-Down Economics
The gains go to the top and the losses trickle down to everyone else.
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Where Trump Sees Foreign Danger
Trump cares more about unauthorized immigrants and Chinese imports than about the sanctity of our democracy.
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Six Reasons for Hope in Trump Times
The fate of this nation depends on every one of us becoming an activist, joining with others, and reclaiming this land from those bent on destroying it.
