Robert Reich
@RBReich
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder, @InequalityMedia. Preorder my new book below:
Last year, the FTC banned two Big Oil executives from serving on the boards of oil giants Exxon and Chevron after it found they colluded to fix gas prices. Trump’s FTC just overturned that ban. His regime is rubber-stamping corporate corruption.
People ask me all the time: how do we actually fight the oligarchy? Here's my answer.
Big Oil ally Lee Zeldin just gutted the EPA's research arm, which informs the agency's life-saving work to regulate toxic chemicals and pollution. It's the latest example of how Trump's deregulation spree benefits his corporate donors at our expense.
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn Kicks 10 million off health insurance Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Medicaid work requirements aren't just cruel. They're a bureaucratic nightmare that will hurt states' economies and hospital networks. So why are Republicans so determined to lie about them? Watch.
Trump wants to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by 40%. But even a 10% cut would prevent an estimated 30 new medications from reaching the market over the next 30 years. “Make America Healthy Again.”
Trump has scrapped the Labor Department's only job training program for low-income seniors, just after his Big Ugly Bill imposed new hurdles for nearly 9 million Medicaid recipients between the ages of 50 and 64. The cruelty is the point.
Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Trump is no different. That’s why he’s trying to control not just what we do – but what we think. Watch:
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
“Surveillance pricing,” or as it’s sometimes called, “personalized pricing,” is another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Here to explain how it works (and what we can do about it) is former FTC chair Lina Khan.
ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
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A U.S. citizen and former Marine detained. A 15-year-old boy with no criminal record held at "Alligator Alcatraz." A father who has lived here for 30 years. No criminal record. Still held by ICE after nearly 6 months. We are witnessing the cruelty of Trump's police state.
Private equity has fueled the nationwide housing crisis. Now the industry is looking to get its hands on everything from youth sports leagues to your 401k. Here's what you should know about the investors making your life worse.
Undocumented immigrants can’t enroll in Medicaid. They can only ever access it temporarily, when they need lifesaving medical care. This only makes people afraid to access the medical care they’re legally allowed to receive. But Trump doesn’t care. His only goal is to sow fear.
