All Robert Reich

With a debt limit deal secured, the president has scored a significant victory over extremist Republicans, Reich writes. But the budget fight will continue. 

The government is shuttered and the nation is on the verge of defaulting on its debts. But public opinion has turned sharply against the Republican Party, Reich writes, and the GOP’s corporate and Wall Street backers are threatening to de-fund it. 

Reich argues Republicans to be Washington's current bullies as they threaten to close down the government if the Affordable Care Act isn't delayed.  Reich warns that Obama and the Democrats must not give in or the bullying cycle will escalate. 

 The Affordable Care Act was duly enacted by a majority of both houses of Congress, signed into law by the President, and even upheld by the Supreme Court. Re-publicans repealing it by de-funding it undermines that democratic process. 

Reich explores the 'myth of the free market' and proposes how we can make the economy work for us rather than the other way around. 

As the two year anniversary of "Occupy" approaches, Reich explores Occupy's failures and what happens next. 

As the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy approaches, Robert Reich cautions that Wall Street may already be falling back into bad habits and that big banks may be too big. 

A strike on Syria may well cause more havoc in that tinder-box region of the world by unleashing still more hatred for America, the West, and for Israel, and more recruits to terrorism, Reich writes.

Wal-Mart touts itself as a major jobs creator for the US. That may be true, but offering lousy jobs on such an extraordinary scale is not something to brag about.

Inequality is widening, Reich writes, and the middle class and the poor are in many ways worse off than they were decades ago. Is there hope for a more egalitarian future?

The good news this Labor Day: Jobs are returning. The bad news this Labor Day: Most of them pay lousy wages and low if non-existent benefits. But giving low wage workers raises isn't as difficult as many large companies want you to think. 

In a post-Cold War America distended by global capital, distorted by concentrated income and wealth, undermined by unlimited campaign donations, and rocked by a wave of new immigrants easily cast by demagogues as 'them,' Reich writes, the notion of the public good has faded.

A divided Congress has only signed 15 bills into law in the last year. The result? Democracy — but not government — has been paralyzed, Reich says.

The gap between Democrats and Republicans is greater than ever. Why are Americans so divided, and can anything be done to pull both sides back together?

Are US corporate tax rates higher than those of other countries? False. Reich debunks three myths about why corporate taxes should be lowered.

Republicans will almost always be more disciplined about voting and messaging than the Democrats, Reich writes. That gives the GOP an advantage in times like this, when the two parties are at war with each other, and when so many Americans are looking for simple answers.

Detroit's bankruptcy is indicative of not only a failure of political negotiations but also the increasing income disparity in America. In Detroit, wealthier Americans have been able to write off the poor for years, Reich says.

Taxpayers are paying for CEOs to receive huge salaries, as corporations deduct executives' compensation from income taxes. What's the solution? 

Republicans are willing to impose taxes on college students while shying away from taxing polluters; the GOP has it backwards, Reich says.

Although the White House has said that the delay in President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act mandate is due to employers needing more time, Reich says the real reason has to do with the GOP resisting efforts to implement the law.