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

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

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

Trump’s Crypto Scam Threatens the Economy and His Own Power
27.01.2025 4

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Robert Reich: Ten Ways To Resist Trump II – OpEd

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

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10 Concrete Things You Can Do to Resist Trump II

10 Concrete Things You Can Do to Resist Trump II
23.01.2025 5

Common Dreams

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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

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Twenty Million Radicalizing Muslims Pose A Challenge – OpEd

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 2

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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 7

Common Dreams

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 2

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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 4

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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

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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

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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 5

Common Dreams

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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

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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 10

Common Dreams

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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 6

Common Dreams

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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Robert Reich: Wikler For DNC Chair – OpEd

Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman, announced he was entering the race to lead the Democratic National Committee.  This is important....

02.12.2024 5

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Robert Reich: Where To Find The Truth? – OpEd

I hope your Thanksgiving Day was peaceful.  Today I’d like to raise a less peaceful question that many of you are asking me: As we enter the...

30.11.2024 3

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Robert Reich: The One Big Constraint On Trump – OpEd

Will anything stop Trump?  He will have control over both chambers of Congress, a tractable Supreme Court, a political base of fiercely loyal...

26.11.2024 4

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Jack Smith Has Made a Grave Mistake Letting Trump Off the Hook

What became of the principle that no person is above the law, not even a former president?

26.11.2024 40

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: GM, Corporate Greed, And The Reason The Democrats Lost The Election – OpEd

At the same time Democrats and progressives are justifiably enraged at Trump’s gonzo Cabinet picks, they’re all but mute about corporate America’s...

24.11.2024 30

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Why Did Trump Win? Because Democrats Aren't Up In Arms Over Mass Layoffs

GM just told 1,000 workers they're jobs are gone. But I haven’t heard Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, or any other leading Democrat say...

23.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: How To Hope In A Near-Hopeless Time? – OpEd

It’s been just two weeks, but it feels like an eternity.  It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss — not just the loss of the...

20.11.2024 2

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Robert Reich: There Was No Mandate For Trump, There Was No Red Shift — There Was Only A Blue Abandonment – OpEd

Trump is saying the election gave him a “very big mandate.” Rubbish. It wasn’t a mandate at all. It wasn’t even a “red shift” to Trump and the...

16.11.2024 3

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What Should President Trump Do Once He’s In Office? – OpEd

By Peter Jacobsen A few months ago I wrote a piece for FEE on Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei. Milei took on the presidency of Argentina...

15.11.2024 1

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Robert Reich: Matt Gaetz As AG Would Be Laughable If It Weren’t So Horrific And Dangerous – OpEd

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as America’s next attorney general. This would be laughable were it not so...

15.11.2024 2

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Robert Reich: What Will You Do? – OpEd

Many of you are still in shock about what happened a week ago today. Some of you don’t even want to read a newspaper or hear the news.  I get it. ...

14.11.2024 2

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Robert Reich: The Lesson – OpEd

A political disaster such as what occurred Tuesday gains significance not simply by virtue of who won or lost, but through how the election is...

10.11.2024 2

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We Will Fight Tyranny and Defend the Common Good From Trump—Starting Now

How will we conduct this resistance? By organizing our communities. By fighting through the courts. By arguing our cause through the media. We...

06.11.2024 3

Common Dreams

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Don't Be Fooled by Another 'Red Mirage' Hoax by Trump

Mirages can be confusing, but if you know what they are, you won’t be fooled by them.

05.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Why Musk Predicts Lina Khan Will Be ‘Fired Soon’ – OpEd

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and the richest man in the world, tweeted this week that Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan “will be fired...

03.11.2024 1

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Robert Reich: Cowardice And Intimidation At The Washington Post And L.A. Times – OpEd

Will Lewis, the chief executive of the Washington Post, announced that the paper would not endorse a presidential candidate this year.  Why not?...

27.10.2024 3

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Robert Reich: Political Cowardice In The C-Suites – OpEd

This is the time for political courage.  Instead, America’s highest-profile business leaders — Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase; Bill Gates, the co-...

25.10.2024 1

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Robert Reich: May I Have A Word? – OpEd

Some of you have shared with me your fears about the upcoming election, now just twenty-two days away.  I can’t sugarcoat this. It is frightening...

16.10.2024 2

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Robert Reich: The Axis Of Tyranny In America And Russia – OpEd

We’ve learned from a forthcoming book by journalist Bob Woodward that in 2020, while he was president, Trump secretly shipped Covid-19 testing...

13.10.2024 2

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Robert Reich: Double Standard? – OpEd

First, the media criticized Harris for not submitting to more interviews. Now that she’s submitted to interview after interview over the last...

11.10.2024 2

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Robert Reich: How Can Trump Be Running Neck-And-Neck With Harris? Let Me Tell You – OpEd

With less than 40 days until Election Day, how can it be that Trump has taken a small lead in Arizona and Georgia — two swing states he lost to...

02.10.2024 6

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