All Robert Reich

With Friday's jobs report showing an economy moving slowly in the right direction, Reich stresses that jobs and growth must take priority over deficit reduction.

America does face a cliff – not a fiscal cliff, but a set of precipices obscured by Republicans' obsession over government’s size and spending, Reich writes.

Reich offers some principles to Democrats as a guide to negotiating with Republicans on the fiscal cliff.

Fiscal cliff drama in Washington coinciding with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers, at Walmart and fast food restaurants, is no coincidence. If Congress goes over, these are the people who will feel the pinch. 

President Barack Obama has started the bidding on the 'fiscal cliff' deal with substantial concessions on tax increases and spending cuts, Reich writes.

Rather than stoking middle-class fears about the 'fiscal cliff,' the White House ought to be reassuring most Americans they can survive the fall, Reich writes.

Timothy Geithner sees the world through the eyes of Wall Street rather than Main Street, Reich writes, which complicates fiscal cliff negotiations.

A new report by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers scares the middle class about the effects of the fiscal cliff, Reich writes.

The nation's problem is not the deficit but a lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, Reich writes.

The Justice Department’s criminal settlement with BP gives their top executives a free pass — allowing the public to believe justice has been done, Reich writes.

A mini-deal on the fiscal cliff will give the new Congress and the White House time to craft a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction without going over the fiscal cliff, Reich writes.

If Republicans won’t budge on raising tax rates but insist on broadening the base, Reich writes, Democrats should take aim at the biggest tax loophole of all for America’s wealthy: the preference for capital gains.

Any 'grand bargain' to avert the fiscal cliff should contain a starting trigger that begins spending cuts and any middle-class tax increases only when the economy is strong enough, Reich writes.

By raising taxes on wealthy Americans, eliminating breaks for oil and gas companies and other measures, Obama could meet the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade, Reich writes.

Democrats and Republicans are now maneuvering to maximize their bargaining leverage when they sit down next year to decide whether or not to increase taxes on wealthy Americans, Reich writes.

Tea Partiers may be more amenable to an agreement on tax revenues now that the electorate has signaled it doesn’t especially like what the Tea Party has been up to, Reich writes.

President Obama's reelection victory and the pending fiscal cliff give him an opportunity to recast the economic debate, Reich writes.

We come to the end of a bitter election feeling as if we’re two nations rather than one, Reich writes.

Reich offers three takeaways for Democrats as the 2012 presidential election comes to a close.

Reich offers 10 principles he says make up a a kind of creed that explains Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.