All Robert Reich

National income tax was a key victory for progressives after Gilded Age when money ruled. The 16th Amendment, authorizing a national income tax, was the first new amendment in 40 years.

Friday's jobs report shows that the government is heading in exactly the wrong direction by raising taxes on the middle class and cutting spending, Reich writes.

Consumers are deeply worried about their jobs and their incomes, Reich writes, and they have every right to be.

Wealthy Americans would do better with smaller shares of a rapidly-growing economy than with the large shares they now possess of an economy that’s barely moving, Reich writes.

President Obama has finally found ways to exploit these inconsistencies the Republican party, Reich writes. 

That the neocons hate Chuck Hagel is the best sign yet that he may be the right person for the job, Reich writes.

President Obama’s debt-ceiling strategy depends on there being enough willingness to cooperate left in the GOP, Reich writes.

President Obama's executive authority to pay the nation’s bills or broadly interpret gun laws already on the books could be useful in pending negotiations with congressional Republicans, Reich writes.

It's time to limit the size of banks and break up the biggest ones on Wall Street, Reich writes.

Job growth and wage growth should be the central focus of economic policy, not deficit reduction, Reich writes.

The battle over the fiscal cliff was only a prelude to the coming battle over raising the debt ceiling – Reich writes – a battle that will likely continue through early March, when the Treasury runs out of tricks to avoid a default on the nation’s debt.

Here are four reasons the 'fiscal cliff' deal emerging from the Senate doesn't serve America well. President Obama could have done better in negotiations with the Republicans.

Despite public opinion running against the GOP, House Republicans are looking less interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, Reich writes.

America's better off now than when Frank Capra filmed 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But today, the 'Potters' of this world call themselves 'job creators' and brand George Baileys as socialists. 

If House Speaker John Boehner can't get Republicans to back a tax increase for the richest 0.3 percent of Americans, it has lost its claim to mainstream status.

President Barack Obama has returned to making premature and unnecessary concessions to Republicans in the fiscal cliff debate, Reich writes.

Cutting the budget deficit — either by reducing public spending or raising taxes on the middle class, or both — will slow the economy and increase unemployment, Reich writes.

As income and wealth become ever more concentrated in America, the nation’s corporations and billionaires will invest even more in politics, Reich writes.

As Washington fiddles over the fiscal cliff, a larger battle over inequality is being waged all over America, Reich writes.