Robert Reich

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients.

Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages.

How is this not a bigger scandal?

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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot.

They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot.

And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot.

Don’t believe their story for a second.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states.

The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination.

Screwworm cases continue to rise.

And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record.

“Make America Healthy Again.”

Chief Justice John Roberts' legacy is a far-right Supreme Court that prioritizes expanding corporate power above all else.

I warned of his right-wing nature when I testified against his nomination in 2005.

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Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

Reminder...

Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

With heat waves shattering temperature records across the globe, leading to needless deaths, let me just say that history will not look fondly on those who put fossil fuel profits above saving the planet.

E. Jean Carroll spent nearly a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world.

She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won.

She is one of my personal heroes.

We all owe her a debt of gratitude.

Under no circumstances should the Senate confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/you-wanna-know-why-todd-blanche-should

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today.

Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year.

Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

This is what a rigged system looks like.

The corruption is endless.

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections.

In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million.

This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Build child care centers.

Build health centers.

Build community centers.

Not data centers.

And not ICE detention centers.

People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers.

They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state.

They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.

This is what governing on behalf of the people looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New York City becomes first in the US to ban deceptive subscription practices

Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’

In just six months, Mamdani has already made huge progress on:

-Lowering rent
-Enacting universal childcare
-Taxing the super rich
-Improving city buses
-Cracking down on junk fees and subscription traps
-Protecting gig workers from wage theft

This is what delivering for the people looks like.

“I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind of politics, one that puts working people at the heart of it.” —Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week.

Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states.

Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.