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Dems Should Not Attend Trump’s State of the Union But With Fury in Their Hearts

Dems Should Not Attend Trump’s State of the Union But With Fury in Their Hearts
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Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: 10 More Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

Robert Reich: 10 More Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further.

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Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Boycott Major Retailers to Show Them We Have the Power

Boycott Major Retailers to Show Them We Have the Power
28.02.2025 4

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: It’s The Oligarchy, Stupid – OpEd

Robert Reich: It’s The Oligarchy, Stupid – OpEd

One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for all to see

27.02.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

The Essence of Tyranny: Trump Is Rapidly Gaining a Monopoly on the Use of Force

The Essence of Tyranny: Trump Is Rapidly Gaining a Monopoly on the Use of Force
26.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Ten Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of

23.02.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin Plan – OpEd

The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin Plan – OpEd

Trump’s startling remarks this week that Ukraine’s leadership “should have never started” the war in Ukraine, that Ukraine’s President Zelensky...

21.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

10 Reasons for Modest Optimism in the Fight Against the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime

10 Reasons for Modest Optimism in the Fight Against the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime

They want a dictatorship built on hopelessness and fear, but we can take courage from the green shoots of rebellion now appearing across America...

21.02.2025 20

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Bribery Unbound – OpEd

Robert Reich: Bribery Unbound – OpEd

Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for the next six months and

20.02.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

A Right-Wing Supreme Court Won't Save Us From This Right-Wing President

A Right-Wing Supreme Court Won't Save Us From This Right-Wing President
17.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Say What This Is, A Coup – OpEd

I want to talk today about the media’s coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup.  I’m not referring to coverage by the

16.02.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Profiles In Courage – OpEd

Robert Reich: Profiles In Courage – OpEd

Sometimes it takes a crisis to reveal one’s true character. This is especially true of people who occupy positions of

15.02.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Corporate Media Failing to Call This What It Is: A Coup

Corporate Media Failing to Call This What It Is: A Coup
14.02.2025 4

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Message To The US And Russia: Don’t Think About Nuclear War – OpEd

By Jonathan Power War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold

13.02.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Fraud And Musk – OpEd

Robert Reich: Fraud And Musk – OpEd

The Trump-Musk regime is accusing federal civil servants of fraud, based on no evidence, while at the same time allowing

13.02.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The End Of Law? – OpEd

Robert Reich: The End Of Law? – OpEd

He is the most lawless president in American history. He’s allowed Musk’s rats unfettered access to the Treasury’s payments system.

12.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: This Is What Dictatorship Looks Like – OpEd

It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making

06.02.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: How Musk Is Messing With Your Social Security, Your Religion, And Everything Else – OpEd

Elon Musk vowed this week to unilaterally cancel hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of government grants after he and

05.02.2025 30

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Trump's Trade War, Authoritarian Power, and the Oligarchs

04.02.2025 20

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Keep Your Eye On The Big Picture – OpEd

It can be overwhelming. Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we

02.02.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Does Anyone Need More Proof That Trump Is Fronting For The Oligarchs? – OpEd

In his ongoing rampage against the laws of the land, Trump this week fired National Labor Relations Board acting chair

30.01.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Trump’s Crypto Scam Threatens the Economy and His Own Power

27.01.2025 7

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Ten Ways To Resist Trump II – OpEd

In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are

24.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

10 Concrete Things You Can Do to Resist Trump II

23.01.2025 5

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The LA Fire And The Common Good – OpEd

Trump has spent much of the past week complaining — and lying — about California’s water policies, falsely claiming that

19.01.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Twenty Million Radicalizing Muslims Pose A Challenge – OpEd

By Jonathan Power Besides dealing with Ukraine, Russia stands at a major crossroads as it works out how exactly to

15.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Will Trump Get Credit For Biden’s Successes? – OpEd

Trump will try to take credit for the Biden economy. Don’t let him. And don’t let Republican enablers of Trump

15.01.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: How Trump Seeks To Destroy The Four Major Pillars Of Resistance – OpEd

Trump and his MAGA allies are already targeting the four major pillars of resistance to Trump during his first term. 

12.01.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Advice And Consent Or Total Submission? – OpEd

The cast of characters Trump has chosen to populate his second term are a Star Wars cantina of fanatics, extremists, conspiracy theorists, sexual...

08.01.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Beware Elon Musk and His Attempts to Steer the World Toward the Neo-Fascist Right

It will not be the first time in history that someone is seduced by the thrill of unconstrained power, although it may be the first time that so...

07.01.2025 2

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The Only Real Firewall Against The Trump Regime – OpEd

As a practical matter, where will we find a firewall against the excesses of the Trump regime? The federal courts.  You might say it doesn’t matter...

04.01.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Let's Make Trump the Last Gasp of America's Second Gilded Age

The challenge is the same as it was at the start of the 20th century: To fight for an economy and a democracy that works for all rather than the few.

03.01.2025 8

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The 20 Realities Of The American System – OpEd

As we come to the end of a difficult year, it’s important to establish a baseline for seeing how much worse Trump will make the American system...

02.01.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: How About If Canada Annexes Blue America? – OpEd

Trump wants to buy Greenland and annex Canada as the 51st American state.  When I first heard these ideas I thought he was joking, but as with all...

01.01.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: What Are They Really Seeking? – OpEd

In three weeks and one day, a bunch of bilious billionaires will essentially take over the U.S. government.  What do they want?  Consider where...

31.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: In Memoriam, A Good Citizen – OpEd

I wanted to say something about former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100.  Carter wrote the following on June 16, 1977, and...

30.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Why Musk Is Wrong About Opening America To Skilled Workers From Abroad – OpEd

When I was secretary of labor, America’s emerging big tech industry pushed to raise the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed into the...

30.12.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out Of It – OpEd

Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what ails America. He’s the consequence. The real causes go back four decades.  Let me start with a bit of family...

29.12.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Trump’s Rise Was Four Decades of Upward Wealth Transfer in the Making

When most people stop believing that they and their children have a fair chance to make it, the tacit social contract begins to unravel, and a...

29.12.2024 5

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Do Not Move To The ‘Center,’ Democrats – OpEd

In the wake of Kamala Harris’s loss to Trump, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he isn’t going to criticize Trump’s nominees...

26.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

A Message for the Holidays: We the People Will Prevail

You have every reason to be worried about what happens after January 20. Many people could be harmed. Yet I continue to have an abiding faith in...

25.12.2024 6

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: We The People Will Prevail – OpEd

The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are.  You have every reason to be worried about what happens after January 20. Many...

25.12.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

If Musk Blocking a Key Spending Bill Isn’t Oligarchy, I Don’t Know What Is

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

19.12.2024 20

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

ABC News Shows What It Looks Like When Corporate Media Bows to Trump

We are beginning to see this all over the U.S. political-economic system — giant corporations and hugely wealthy people going out of their way to...

17.12.2024 7

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Spineless, Greedy CEOs Are Lining Up to Lick Trump’s Backside

At a time in American history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and...

15.12.2024 6

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: How Are You Doing? – OpEd

We are in a queasy interregnum. Four weeks ago, we learned that Donald Trump won the 2024 election. In six weeks, he’ll be taking over the United...

12.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: What Liz Cheney Deserves From Joe Biden – OpEd

When she was a member of Congress, former Representative Liz Cheney took positions on many issues that I abhorred. I suspect you did, too.  But on...

11.12.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

Trump and Musk's Billionaire Plot to Destroy Social Security

The solution is obvious and simple, which is why the nation's richest people hate it so much: Scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay a much fairer...

10.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Is Trump Putting Nation on Dangerous Path Toward a Second Civil War

What happens when we refuse to allow Trump’s lackeys to wreak revenge on his political enemies who live within our states and communities?

06.12.2024 20

Common Dreams

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Pardon Me – OpEd

My first reaction to the Sunday news that President Biden was pardoning his son Hunter was sadness.  Biden has a constitutional right to pardon his...

04.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich