Robert Reich

Manufacturing and coalmining aren’t the way to make America great again. Here’s what would actually restore good-paying jobs

On Sunday night, the US announced that it was cutting tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, for 90 days, and the Chinese are dropping tariffs on US goods from 125% to 10%, also for 90 days.

The stock market soared on the news. (Anyone with inside knowledge of the deal could have made a killing.)

A populist – anti-establishment – revolution was inevitable. But it didn’t have to be a tyrannical one

Demonstrations against Donald Trump Trump are getting larger and louder. Good. This is absolutely essential.

But at some point we’ll need to demonstrate not just against the president but also for the the United States we want.

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We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out

We have witnessed the first 100 days of the odious Trump regime.

The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.

If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.