Tag: Robert Reich
YOUR LETTERS: Reform the Supreme Court now!
Lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court have created an elite class of justices, immune to the consequences of their actions and decisions.
The lack of...
OPINIONS: Time for the Electoral College to go?
By ROBERT REICH
Inequality Media
Civic Action
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the White House despite losing the popular vote by 543,000 votes.
It happened...
OPINION: Why is American capitalism so rotten?
By ROBERT REICH
The stakes could not be higher.
How Americans vote in the upcoming election may determine whether our democracy survives.
How we respond to the...
OPINION: Is the pendulum swinging back to unions?
By ROBERT REICH
The United Auto Workers has scored a major victory.
It’s still awaiting a vote by union members, but it’s a big deal –...
OPINON: Don’t raise the retirement age. Protect Social Security from Republican...
By ROBERT REICH
One reason for the great popularity and success of Social Security over the last 85 years is its essential sense of fairness: You...
OPINION: It’s time to stand up to corporate bullying
By ROBERT REICH
Starbucks should be getting publicly roasted for union busting and refusing to even negotiate with unionized workers.
You see, if there’s one thing...
OPINION: Tell Congress: Raise taxes on rich & corporations; don’t cut...
By ROBERT REICH
Inequality Media Civic Action
According to a new poll by Data for Progress, a billionaire tax to fund programs that benefit ordinary Americans...
OPINION: How corporations usurped American political power
By ROBERT REICH
The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of.
In 1971, the U.S. Chamber...
OPINION: The truth behind the Republican Party’s attempt to rebrand itself
By ROBERT REICH
The Republican Party is trying to rebrand itself as the party of the working class.
Rubbish. Republicans can spout off all the catchy...
OPINION: Here are the 5 biggest corporate lies about unions
By ROBERT REICH
Wealthy corporations and their enablers have spread five big lies about unions in order to stop workers from organizing and to protect...