Sitemap - 2024 - Robert Reich
The 20 realities of the American system (before Trump gets a second crack at wrecking it even more)
How about if Canada annexes Blue America?
Why the Muskrat is wrong about opening America to skilled workers from abroad
The Coffee Klatch Holiday Special | December 28, 2024
The Big Picture: How we got into this mess, and how we get out of it.
The 10 biggest myths about the economy
Office Hours on Christmas and Hanukkah: What about your Trumper Uncle Bob?
Do not move to the “center,” Democrats!
Sunday caption contest: Big guns
Shutdown averted but Republicans deserted | Coffee Klatch for December 21, 2024
The Muskrat’s political ambitions keep growing
The American oligarchy is back, and it’s out of control
Can the Muskrat shut the United States government?
Office Hours: Where will the resistance come from?
How the DOGE billionaires plan to kill Medicaid
Sunday caption contest: Defense?
Time Magazine’s Jackass of the Year | The Coffee Klatch, December 14, 2024
America’s four stories (Part 2)
America’s four stories (Part 1)
Office Hours: Where they’re raging against the establishment
The Trump-Muskrat plot to kill Social Security
What Liz Cheney deserves from Joe Biden
Why under no circumstances should Pete Hegseth be entrusted with the U.S. military
Rage Against the Machine | The Coffee Klatch, December 7, 2024
How Trump could bring on a second civil war
The difference between loyalty and subservience
Office Hours: Which of Trump’s picks is least likely to be confirmed?
Sunday caption contest: Remains of the days
This is NOT Trump’s America! | The Coffee Klatch, November 30, 2024
Office Hours: In a time of disappointment and fear, can we be grateful?
Trump’s testosterone-poisoned picks
The special counsel Jack Smith just made a hell of a mistake
The one big constraint on Trump
Trump’s Schmucks | The Coffee Klatch, November 23, 2024
GM, corporate greed, and the reason the Democrats lost the election
Office Hours: Who gave Trump a majority?
How to hope in a near-hopeless time?
The wrecking-ball crew and the looting of America
Trump’s “First Buddy” is in deep shit
Sunday caption contest: The Takeover
How to stop Trump | The Coffee Klatch, November 16, 2024
Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Health Secretary. OMG. Really?
There was no mandate for Trump. There was no red shift. There was only a blue abandonment
Matt Gaetz as AG would be laughable if it weren’t so horrific and dangerous
What do we do now? | The Coffee Klatch, November 9, 2024
Office Hours: What if Trump wins it all?
Today. Holding each other’s hands.
Join us tonight for an Election Night Live
Be prepared for the “red mirage” tonight!
Sunday caption contest: The choice ahead? _ or _?
The Republican Sh*tstorm | The Coffee Klatch for November 2, 2024
Why Musk predicts Lina Khan will be “fired soon”
The 101 worst things about Trump’s shambolic presidency
What Bezos and Musk really want from Trump
The Supreme Court must be on the side of voting rights. Today’s decision is a bad omen.
Office Hours: How are you coping?
Why Elon Musk thinks he’ll be f*cked if Trump loses
Harris’s closing message: Why it must center on anti-elitist economics
Sunday caption contest: 3 a.m.
How to survive the next 9 days? The Saturday Coffee Klatch | October 26, 2024
Cowardice and intimidation at The Washington Post and L.A. Times
2024 Election Video of the week
What Vice President Henry Wallace knew about American fascism and can tell us about Trump
Political cowardice in the C-suites
Office Hours: If Harris wins but it’s extremely close in battleground states — what happens then?
How the hell can the race be tied?
Sunday caption contest: If his lies could speak
Trump is unstable, Harris is super able | The Coffee Klatch: October 19, 2024
My 2024 Election Video of the Week: Trump’s tax scam
Trump’s closing argument: full-throated fascism
Office Hours: How optimistic are you right now?
Harris’s closing argument: whose side she’s on
Sunday caption contest: The monster
The Musking of Trump | The Coffee Klatch | October 12, 2024
My 2024 Election Video of the Week: Trump’s Business Failures
The Axis of Tyranny in America and Russia
What to do about corporations that maim and kill their workers
How did the GOP become the party of cranks and crackpots?
Sunday caption contest: Activism
Trump’s October Surprise!? | The Coffee Klatch: October 5, 2024
2024 Election Video of the week: Why is MAGA so WEIRD?
Vance and the future of the anti-democracy movement
Office Hours: Last night’s vice presidential debate
Tonight’s vice presidential debate watch-along
The single most important thing to listen for in tonight's debate
How the hell can Trump be running neck-and-neck with Harris? Let me tell you.
37 Days Left in the Garden of Good and Evil: The Coffee Klatch for September 28, 2024
Election 2024 Video of the Week: Trump’s bonkers economic plan
How Musk threatens America’s national security, and what must be done
Office Hours: How can it possibly be that Trump is running neck-and-neck with Harris, if not ahead?
How Low Will Trump Go? The Coffee Klatch, September 21, 2024
A sincere “thank you,” after three years
The truth about private equity
Why the American economy isn’t working for most Americans in the age of shareholder capitalism
Office Hours: A grim question that must be asked
Election 2024 Video of the Week
The key to what should be (and hopefully will be) Kamalanomics
The Trump Wreck: The Coffee Klatch for September 14, 2024
The Violence Against Women Act, and the powerful men who violate women
Election 2024: Video of the Week (videos #2 and #2.5)
Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate
The horrendous truth about Trumponomics
Office Hours: Who won the debate, and how?
First Harris-Trump Debate of 2024 | A Coffee Klatch Watch Party. Please join us.
Tall energy and tonight’s debate
The future of Trump if he loses the election
The Upcoming Great Debate: The Coffee Klatch | September 7, 2024
Today’s jobs report: What it means for the Fed and politics
Spreading the Truth about the 2024 election (Video #1: Trump’s Project 2025)
The Fate of the SS United States, Bill Clinton, and Me
What will Kamala Harris do about America’s soaring inequality and shameful tax system?
Office Hours: The most important thing Harris should do in next Tuesday’s debate with Trump
Why giant mergers harm workers
The Incredible Shrinking Trump: The Coffee Klatch | August 31, 2024
Announcing a new video series to spread the truth about the 2024 election!
Office Hours: Should Harris give more details about what she'll do as President?
How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris?
The Dems’ Next Move? The Coffee Klatch | August 24, 2024
How Kamala intends to bring prices down
Office Hours: What should be Kamala’s and the Dems’ core theme?
When I took my son to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Sunday caption contest: History
Trump’s Meltdown and Kamala’s Upsurge | The Coffee Klatch, August 17, 2024
The real fix for Social Security
Office Hours: Really now, why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s apparent mental decline?
Sunday caption contest: They’re off!
Why Harris-Walz Will Win | The Coffee Klatch, August 10, 2024
Bonus Debunking Myth: “Trump supporters are ignorant.” Bunk!
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s increasing dementia?
The second-worst person in American public life is …
The establishment strikes back
Office Hours: The second-worst person in American public life today?
Sunday caption contest: Pedestal
Oops. I sent out the klatch early.
Will Trump dump Vance? The Coffee Klatch | August 3, 2024
Debunking Myth #10: Economic growth is always good
Office Hours: Will Trump seek Dictator for Life?
Kamala and the politics of joy
The torch is passed: from MAGA throwbacks to America’s future
Sunday caption contest: The choice
Trump is Toast. The Coffee Klatch | July 27, 2024
Debunking Myth #9: “Inflation is caused by wage increases and too much government spending.”
Office Hours: And now, for vice president?
Sunday caption contest: The Republican Convention
Debunking Myth #8: “Corporate tax cuts create jobs”
Tonight: Put on your seatbelts, watch your wallets, bring your parachute, and join us
Office Hours: Did the assassination attempt help Trump, and if so, how?
The GOP pretends its pro-union
Sunday caption contest: Blaming the media for the attempt on Trump’s life
Debunking Myth #7: America is socialist
There’s only one relevant question
Who exactly is trying to push Biden out?
Office Hours prediction: Does Trump win or lose — against Biden or another Dem?
How to prevent America and the world from falling into fascism
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Sunday caption contest: In the air
NOW what for Biden and the Dems?! | The Coffee Klatch, July 6, 2024
Debunking Myth #6: “Global trade is good for everyone!”
Office Hours: WTF are the Democrats doing?
Andrew Mellon’s humongous donation to Donald Trump
The Supreme Court decides, in effect, there will be no Trump trial before the election
What do Democrats — and all sane people in America — do now?
Debunking Myth #5: “The market doesn’t play favorites.”
Final thoughts on tonight’s debate
Announcing our debate watch-along in real time, tonight, on this page, starting 5:45 PT/8:45 ET
Office Hours: Who will win tomorrow’s debate?
Why I’m scared sh*tless about Thursday
Sunday caption contest: End of Round 1
Are the bullies gaining control of America? The Coffee Klatch | June 22, 2024
60 years ago today, they murdered my protector
Debunking Myth #4: “Corporate political donations are free speech.”
Biden should welcome their hatred
Office Hours: Is the Trump verdict hurting or helping him?
Trump at the Business Greedtable
The lies that undermine America
Sunday caption contest: Taking bump stock
How did the Supreme Court get this far out of control? | The Coffee Klatch | June 15, 2024
Debunking Myth #3: “The rich deserve to be rich”
Biden must put the blame for high prices where it belongs — on big corporations
Who’s the real elite in America?
It’s not too late to harden American democracy against Trump
Sunday caption contest: campaign pin
Is Trumpism Fascism? | The Coffee Klatch, June 8, 2024
The job machine keeps churning
Debunking Myth #2: “Government obstructs the free market”
Psst: Don’t fall for a third party (pass it on)
Office Hours: Why is the world drifting toward authoritarianism and neofascism?
The Party of Huge Nothingburgers
What will Trump’s conviction really mean?
Sunday caption contest: The Jury
Is Dynastic Wealth Destroying American Democracy? | The Coffee Klatch, June 1, 2024
How can they look at themselves in the mirror?
10 Economic Myths Debunked, starting tomorrow!
The dangerous anti-democracy coalition
The true meaning of Memorial Day, and the upcoming election
My message to the graduating class
Sunday caption contest: Signage
The Common Good vs. Trumpism | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, May 25, 2024
Announcing our “Debunk” series, starting this Friday!
The Supreme Court’s Republican Partisan Hacks
When I got the political bends
Alito’s second flag: He must be impeached
But seriously, is Trump now openly embracing fascism?
Office Hours: Is Trump openly embracing fascism?
What do Americans really know about Trump and Biden?
How to overcome the moral squalor of Trump? | The Coffee Klatch, May 18, 2024
When an old, dear friend passes
The loathsomeness of Trump world
Office Hours: A convicted criminal for president?
How to make $50 million a year while your corporation goes down the tubes
America’s second civil war? It’s already begun
Did student protesters affect Biden’s decision?
Is this for real? The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, May 11, 2024
Trump's price for selling the planet: $1 billion
Office Hours: Is Biden focusing on the right issue?
Stock buybacks are lethal, literally
What I’m telling my graduating students
Sunday caption contest: Protest?
Will the protests hurt Biden? Saturday Coffee klatch, May 4, 2024
What’s really motivating the protests?
Lawless Trump demands law and order on campuses
Office Hours: Will Israel’s war in Gaza harm Biden in November? If so, what should Biden do now?
What to say to a Republican who complains about the federal debt.
The most important litmus test of all
Brief thoughts on the wave of campus protests across America
Sunday caption contest: friendship
The Supreme Court’s Farce and Ruse
The most important thing I teach my students
Elon Musk’s grotesque distortion of capitalism
How the Free Speech Movement was born
The most important thing I teach my students
How to talk about Israel and Gaza on a college campus (or anywhere else)
The stunning rebirth of the American labor movement
Sunday caption contest: The twelve
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, April 20, 2024
A small thing you can do today to help stop Trump
Office Hours: Biden in Pennsylvania, Trump in court — who gets the biggest boost?
The Big Picture: Trump’s ongoing attempted coup
Happy Tax Day, and the coming fight over extending Trump’s tax cut
Sunday caption contest: On the road?
Why are food prices out of control? | The Coffee Klatch, with Michael Pollan
How to understand next week’s Trump criminal felony trial
Why are we still suffering inflation? Monopoly power!
Office Hours: Should parents be criminally responsible for a child who kills?
Now Trump can’t sidestep his key role in banning abortions
More evidence that RFK Junior is working for Trump (as if you needed it)
The Total Eclipse of Donald Trump
When will Americans start crediting Biden with a great economy?
Sunday caption contest: Gallery
No More Bombs for Bibi? The Coffee Klatch
The man who sacrificed workers to shareholders
Office hours: Biden’s biggest obstacle?
How (and why) I post every day
Sunday caption contest: Good or rotten?
Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets
Big Money: Taxes, Trump, and Beyoncé | The Coffee Klatch
When Roger Ailes and I didn’t make a deal
Office Hours: NBC fires Ronna McDaniel, former RNC chair. Does the Republican Party have a future?
How to deal with the Trump threat (Part 1)
Sunday caption contest: broke?
Is Trump Broke? | The Coffee Klatch, March 23, 2024
My mentor and friend, Ken Galbraith
Why Boeing is such a shitty company (continued)
Trump’s warnings of violence must not be ignored
The biggest contrast in the upcoming election (other than democracy vs. “bloodbath” fascism)
Sunday caption contest: The race is on!
Trump is out of his mind and desperate
The Billionaire Takeover of America? | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, March 16, 2024
Whom do you trust more with TikTok — China, or American billionaires?
Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump?
Office Hours: Will 2024 be another contested election?
The global anti-democracy movement, co-chaired by D. Trump and V. Putin
The Case for Nauseous Optimism
Sunday caption contest: Potholes
Biden’s Resurrection and Trump’s Diminution: Saturday Coffee Klatch, March 9, 2024
Biden's strong State of the Union — and my utter failure advising Democratic presidential candidates
Mr. President, what you should say tonight
Office Hours: What should be Biden’s central message in tomorrow’s State of the Union?
Back to the trial of John T. Scopes
The most troubling aspect of today’s Supreme Court decision
How Biden can save tens of thousands of lives (and help save his presidency)
Sunday caption contest: Will they promptly decide about Trump's immunity?
The beginning of the end for Trump? Saturday coffee klatch
The Old Left, the New Left, and the Left Behind
Goodbye, Mitch: You were the worst
Office Hours: Should the Michigan primary result be a wakeup call to Biden?
Office Hours: Where will Trump find the money to pay all his civil penalties?
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk vs. American workers
Today in the Supreme Court: What’s the real answer to the problem of policing Giant Tech’s content?
Sunday caption contest: Little darling
Why has the Republican Party become an enemy of democracy? The Saturday coffee klatch
The Emerging Republican Theocracy
My surprise at yesterday’s Substack response
Office Hours: Should Biden step aside and allow an open Democratic convention?
The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth
The difference between leaders and thugs
Sunday caption contest: money troubles?
Trump’s Week from Hell: The Saturday Coffee Klatch
How Trump is liable for fraud even though no one was hurt
Where are the record corporate profits coming from? Your thinning wallets
Office Hours: A Valentine’s Day question about people in public life
Children in Gaza: Why aren’t we stopping the deaths?
The growing disgrace and danger of Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Who’s Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world?
Is Biden Too Old? | The Coffee Klatch
Oral surgery at today’s Supreme Court
Getting Wall Street out of our houses
What do Dartmouth basketball and Tennessee’s VW plant have in common?
How to understand the politics of Israel and Palestine?
Sunday caption contest: Grandchild’s curiosity
Is there any good news to celebrate? Our Saturday coffee klatch, February 3, 2024
Why I was expelled from Miss Bouton’s nursery school
Quiz: Do you favor giving some help to poor kids but even more to the rich?
How Trump could win the presidency even if he loses the popular vote AND the Electoral College
Office Hours: Can Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, and Jon Stewart help Biden?
How to survive the next 280 days (and help America survive beyond them)
Sunday caption contest: Land Ho?
The real story behind Trump’s “wins” in New Hampshire and Iowa: Saturday coffee klatch
Today, Trump got his comeuppance
The Final Battle (The last installment of Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 10)
Trump’s biggest economic lie of the campaign (so far)
Wanna know Trump’s running mate?
Office Hours: What will you do if Trump steals the 2024 election?
Trump’s poor showing in New Hampshire
Why the mainstream media’s awestruck coverage of Trump’s campaign is deceptive and dangerous
Sunday caption contest: this way!
What the hell has happened to the Republican Party? Our Saturday Coffee Klatch
Why Jamie Dimon loves Trump’s policies
Resurrecting Countervailing Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 9)
Why is Boeing such a shitty corporation?
Office Hours: Can Trump’s nomination be stopped?
What’s the “Chevron doctrine,” and why should you want to preserve it?
Sunday caption contest: the currents
Will Trump walk away with the Republican nomination? Saturday Coffee Klatch
How Trump is exploiting our scarcest resource
Sunday caption contest: the currents
How the oligarchy shrank America’s middle class (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 8)
What Trump’s lawyer is really advocating
Office Hours: Will the Supreme Court drag its robes?
The 5 biggest Trump-Republican lies about illegal immigration
Sunday caption contest: Where?
Will Trump ever be held accountable for his attempted coup? Saturday coffee klatch
Five horrifying truths about what occurred three years ago today
How America’s oligarchy has paved the road to fascism (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 7)
The “I won’t vote for the lesser of two evils” rubbish
Office Hours: Our start-of-year presidential poll
Claudine Gay is ousted at Harvard
Why is the mainstream media failing to report accurately on the upcoming election?