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Robert Reich: Happy Tax Day, And Coming Fight Over Extending Trump’s Tax Cut – OpEd

Happy Tax Day. As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” But who should pay the...

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All I Want for Tax Day Is a Reversal of Trump’s Regressive Tax Cuts

Like the Bush tax cuts before it, the Trump tax cut was a trickle-down failure.

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Robert Reich: How To Understand Next Week’s Trump Criminal Felony Trial – OpEd

Trump’s first criminal trial — the first criminal trial of a former president, ever — is scheduled to begin Monday.

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Robert Reich: Why Are We Still Suffering Inflation? Monopoly Power! – OpEd

We learned that the Consumer Price Index climbed 3.5 percent in March from a year earlier, up from 3.2 percent

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Robert Reich: More Evidence That RFK Junior Is Working For Trump – OpEd

No one should doubt that Trump and Trump donors are behind RFK Junior’s campaign — with the goal of siphoning off enough votes from Biden to...

10.04.2024 1

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Robert Reich: When Will Americans Start Crediting Biden With A Great Economy? – OpEd

On Friday, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Standards issued its monthly report on jobs — and it was a doozy. Jobs and real wages (wages...

08.04.2024 4

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Donald Trump's Big Con: On the Man Who Stared Into a Solar Eclipse

So either Trump’s billionaire backers are being conned or the American people are. Only a fool can't guess which it will be.

08.04.2024 4

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: The Man Who Sacrificed Workers To Shareholders – OpEd

For most corporations, the largest single cost is payrolls. Hence the now-accepted formula for raising stock prices: Increase profits by cutting...

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Robert Reich: Chips, Tech, and Steel – OpEd

Tokyo-based Nippon Steel Corporation’s new CEO says he’s pressing on with its $14.1 billion acquisition of United States Steel Corporation.  But...

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Robert Reich: Bombs Away? – OpEd

I’m deeply troubled that the Biden administration continues to approve the transfer of thousands more bombs to Israel.  Not only does this further...

05.04.2024 4

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Robert Reich: Trump’s 5-Step Fascist Plan – OpEd

On Friday, Trump posted a video featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied —with hands and feet bound together. Trump has previously posted...

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Robert Reich: The End Of The Necktie? – OpEd

I’ve always hated neckties. My objection isn’t aesthetic. It’s discomfort. I have almost no neck. I have a large head that sits on a very short...

02.04.2024 4

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Robert Reich: Record Corporate Profits From Your Thinning Wallets – OpEd

The latest economic data shows two big things:  (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year.  (2) Inflation is...

01.04.2024 10

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Robert Reich: When Roger Ailes And I Didn’t Make A Deal – OpEd

Roger Ailes did more to degrade the tone of public life in America than anyone since Joseph McCarthy.  In 1998, Ailes asked me to drop by his office...

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Robert Reich: The Trump Integrity Trap – OpEd

If you’re seeking employment at the Republican National Committee, you’re likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe that the 2020...

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Robert Reich: How To Deal With The Trump Threat – OpEd

The 2024 general election is now underway.  Like most of you, I’ve found myself immersed in many conversations about the threat to our nation —...

29.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: How Biden Can Stop Netanyahu – OpEd

The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor; the...

28.03.2024 2

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Robert Reich: Congress’s New Low – OpEd

Gallup has been asking the public the same question for 50 years, since April 1974: “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling...

25.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: My Mentor And Friend, Ken Galbraith – OpEd

Forty years ago, on March 22, 1984, I had lunch with John Kenneth Galbraith at the Faculty Club at Harvard. I remember the date because it marked the...

23.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: Trump Is Out Of His Mind And Desperate – OpEd

At a rally outside the Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump warned that “if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath...

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Trump Wants to Destroy Social Security, But Biden Plan Would Improve and Expand It

Biden wants to save Social Security by having the super-rich — who have become far richer over the past several decades — pay more Social Security...

18.03.2024 8

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Who Do You Trust More With TikTok — China, Or American Billionaires? – OpEd

Should you be more worried about China siphoning off your personal data and manipulating your thoughts via TikTok, or American...

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Robert Reich: Seriously, Again, How Dumb Is Trump? – OpEd

My definition of stupidity is continuing to do something that has so far cost you a minimum of $91 million because you won’t stop doing it.  In...

15.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: The Case For Nauseous Optimism – OpEd

I chose the word nauseous over cautious because my stomach is churning at the very possibility Trump could get a second term. But I don’t believe...

12.03.2024 5

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Robert Reich: Biden’s Strong State Of The Union — And My Utter Failure Advising Democratic Presidential Candidates – OpEd

I shared with you the advice I gave President Biden on what he should say in his State of the Union address.  He didn’t quite take it, but I...

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Robert Reich: Mr. President, What You Should Say Tonight – OpEd

President Biden is addressing the country tonight in his State of the Union address. Here’s some free advice about what he should say about the...

08.03.2024 5

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Tonight, Biden Must Vow to Go Even Further to Combat Corporate Greed

Instead of telling Americans the economy is great — which many won’t believe — he must tell them the truth: that most of the economic gains...

07.03.2024 5

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Escaping Trump’s Revenge – OpEd

Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Washington, D.C., with about 63 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 33 percent, securing all 19...

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Robert Reich: The Most Troubling Aspect Of Monday’s Supreme Court Decision – OpEd

Even though Trump clearly engaged in an insurrection and even though the Constitution clearly bars insurrectionists from holding elected office, the...

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Today's Dastardly Ruling by the Supreme Court

It was a gift to Trump that bodes terrible times ahead of U.S. democracy.

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Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: How Biden Can Save Tens Of Thousands Of Lives (And Help Save His Presidency) – OpEd

On Thursday, more than 100 people were killed and 700 injured in northern Gaza, after thousands of hungry civilians rushed at a convoy of aid trucks,...

04.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: The Old Left, The New Left, And The Left Behind – OpEd

From time to time, I offer some personal history, because you may have an interest in where my values and

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Robert Reich: Goodbye, Mitch, You Were The Worst – OpEd

He will be remembered as one of the most dangerous politicians in living memory. He helped transform the Republican Party

02.03.2024 4

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Robert Reich: Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk Vs. American Workers – OpEd

I never believed Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America (worth an estimated $114 billion), and Elon Musk, the richest

28.02.2024 4

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Robert Reich: What’s The Real Answer To The Problem Of Policing Giant Tech’s Content? – OpEd

Monday, NetChoice v Paxton was argued before the Supreme Court.  In it, Texas and Florida alleged that huge internet platforms (which have become so...

28.02.2024 10

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Bezos and Musk Wage Retrograde War on Unions

The modern-day robber barons want the Supreme Court to return America to a time before workers had the right to form unions.

27.02.2024 3

Common Dreams

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Behold! Trump's GOP Theocracy Is Coming

A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a democracy.

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Robert Reich: When I Met Strom Thurmond – OpEd

Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco, President Biden compared current Republicans in Congress to the “real racists” he served with...

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Robert Reich: The Poster Child For The Perils Of Dynastic Wealth – OpEd

If Donald Trump takes power this November, he’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive — in 1920. I’m talking...

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Memorial: Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP – OpEd

By Antonio C. S. Rosa Johan Galtung wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on March 3, 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace...

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Robert Reich: How Trump Is Liable For Fraud Even Though No One Was Hurt – OpEd

New York Justice Arthur F. Engoron found Trump liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordered him to pay a penalty of $355 million —...

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Robert Reich: Where Are Record Corporate Profits Coming From? Your Thinning Wallets – OpEd

I apologize for beginning this article with a graph. But this is a very important one. It shows corporate profits after taxes, from 1946 through the...

19.02.2024 5

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The Really Big Picture – OpEd

By now you know that I love to draw — not just because it’s fun, but also because I sometimes find it easier to express ideas through drawing than...

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Why Are Corporate Profits Soaring? Because You're Getting Fleeced

I apologize for beginning this letter to you with a graph. But this is a very important one. It shows corporate profits after taxes, from 1946 through...

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Robert Reich: Children In Gaza, Why Aren’t We Stopping The Deaths? – OpEd

Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen gave a remarkable speech on the Senate floor this week, condemning the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for...

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Robert Reich: The Growing Disgrace And Danger Of Robert F. Kennedy Junior – OpEd

Robert F. Kennedy Junior has apologized to relatives after his Super Bowl ad last Sunday, which mirrored an ad broadcast by his uncle John F....

15.02.2024 4

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Robert Reich: Who’s Vladimir Putin’s Best Friend In The World? – OpEd

The mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to talk about this, but it’s important that America and the world face what seems increasingly clear:...

13.02.2024 4

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The Disgracefulness of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

At a time when the truth is a precious common good, RFK Junior has been spreading dangerous lies.

13.02.2024 5

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Getting Wall Street Out Of Our Houses – OpEd

Ask average Americans why they’re grumpy — why, for example, they don’t credit Joe Biden with a good economy — and lack of affordable housing...

09.02.2024 2

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Robert Reich: What Do Dartmouth Basketball And Tennessee’s VW Plant Have In Common? – OpEd

I did not star on the Dartmouth basketball team when I attended that ivy-clad institution, but I never imagined its basketball team might become the...

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