Robert Reich

Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.

Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.

Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?

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YouTube video by Robert Reich Are Trump’s Days Numbered? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Our full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

Robert Reich Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed

Why have so many corporations lined up to donate to Trump’s ballroom project?

Because in Trump's White House, everything is for sale — even the building itself. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbf6BJzpk1E

The Trump regime's war crime spree is in service of a deeply racist foreign policy doctrine.

Sunday thought: Really, truly, the end of Trump is near MAGA is cracking up, but beware

If you’re taking some satisfaction from the MAGA crackup, don’t let your guard down. It’s when Trump feels he’s in trouble that he does the biggest and craziest things to deflect attention. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

Trump Waives Southwest Airlines Fine For Holiday Meltdown Under former airline lobbyist Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department is rolling back consumer protections for travelers.

"Man of the people." www.levernews.com/trump-waives...

YouTube video by Robert Reich The “Peace President” Kills Again | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...

Robert Reich The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?

Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.

It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?

-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich

These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.

The same week the Donald Trump and his regime scrambled to justify deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean, he accepted the so-called “FIFA Peace Prize.” You cannot make this up.

YouTube video by Robert Reich The “Peace President” Kills Again | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...

We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?

Robert Reich The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max.

This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.

Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.

Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Robert Reich The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

1 million acres of pristine public land in Alaska will now be open to fossil fuel drilling, thanks to Republicans in Congress.

Big Oil spent nearly $500 million lobbying and boosting friendly candidates last year — and now they're getting a big return on their investment.

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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.

There’s no such thing as a “free market.”

It is designed.

It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

Trump increased U.S. military spending to record levels.

He bombed Iran without approval from Congress.

He's launched deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean — while presenting no evidence to back up allegations of drug smuggling.

"The peace president."

Trump has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a boon for big corporations.

His Big Ugly Bill, which slashed Medicaid and SNAP, also gave corporations $16B in new depreciation tax breaks this year.

A windfall for the wealthy at your expense.

Robert Reich Why I'm Voting YES On Prop 50

SCOTUS is allowing Texas to redistrict early.

Remember that California responded by passing Prop 50 last month.

Other states must also counteract Trump's attempt to steal the 2026 midterms.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.

Childhood vaccination rates were falling before Trump took office.

But RFK Jr.'s latest attacks on vaccines will make new outbreaks of old diseases even more deadly.

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We do not want to go back to that era.

The collective 7.5% tax rate paid over 7 years by American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United is about half the 14.5% paid by the average U.S. household in 2022.

Counting only Delta, Southwest and United—the collective tax rate declines to 4%.

The tax code is rigged.