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Robert ReichSan Francisco Chronicle |
The criminal case known as the People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump went to trial Monday. Hundreds of citizens were summoned to...
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...
Like the Bush tax cuts before it, the Trump tax cut was a trickle-down failure.
Trump’s first criminal trial — the first criminal trial of a former president, ever — is scheduled to begin Monday.
We learned that the Consumer Price Index climbed 3.5 percent in March from a year earlier, up from 3.2 percent
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...
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...
So either Trump’s billionaire backers are being conned or the American people are. Only a fool can't guess which it will be.
For most corporations, the largest single cost is payrolls. Hence the now-accepted formula for raising stock prices: Increase profits by cutting...
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...
I’m deeply troubled that the Biden administration continues to approve the transfer of thousands more bombs to Israel. Not only does this further...
On Friday, Trump posted a video featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied —with hands and feet bound together. Trump has previously posted...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Should you be more worried about China siphoning off your personal data and manipulating your thoughts via TikTok, or American...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Even though Trump clearly engaged in an insurrection and even though the Constitution clearly bars insurrectionists from holding elected office, the...
It was a gift to Trump that bodes terrible times ahead of U.S. democracy.
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,...
From time to time, I offer some personal history, because you may have an interest in where my values and
He will be remembered as one of the most dangerous politicians in living memory. He helped transform the Republican Party
I never believed Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America (worth an estimated $114 billion), and Elon Musk, the richest
Monday, NetChoice v Paxton was argued before the Supreme Court. In it, Texas and Florida alleged that huge internet platforms (which have become so...
The modern-day robber barons want the Supreme Court to return America to a time before workers had the right to form unions.
A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a democracy.
Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco, President Biden compared current Republicans in Congress to the “real racists” he served with...
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...
By Antonio C. S. Rosa Johan Galtung wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on March 3, 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen gave a remarkable speech on the Senate floor this week, condemning the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for...
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....
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:...
At a time when the truth is a precious common good, RFK Junior has been spreading dangerous lies.
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...