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Eurasia Review
March 27, 2018
What's worrying isn't that Trump is now getting advice about public policy from fanatics like John Bolton and Lawrence Kudlow. Trump has never cared about public policy. The real worry is that – with Robert Mueller breathing down his neck, and several special elections suggesting a giant “blue wave” inÃâà...
AlterNet
March 19, 2018
Trump and Republicans branded their huge corporate tax cut as a way to make American corporations more profitable so they'd invest in more and better jobs. But they're buying back their stock instead. Now that the new corporate tax cut is pumping up profits, buybacks are on track to hit a record $800Ãâà...
Newsweek
March 19, 2018
Before, he was constrained by a few “adults”—Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, and John Kelly—whom he appointed because he thought they had some expertise he lacked. Now he's either fired or is in the process of removing the adults. He's replacing them with a Star Wars cantina of toadiesÃâà...
JSTOR Daily
March 16, 2018
“The common good is no longer a fashionable idea,” writes Robert Reich in his latest book, The Common Good. Yet renewing the concept, he argues, is urgent: “If there is no common good,” he writes, “there is no society.” Reich's new title offers both a careful accounting of the American history of moralÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
March 15, 2018
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is famously small in stature—and has a penchant for short jokes about himself — but he has big ideas about democracy, patriotism, work, leadership, and the American experiment. Reich teaches public policy now at the University of California Berkeley. He is aÃâà...
The Nation.
March 15, 2018
Robert Reich: Donald Trump vs. the Common Good. Robert Reich: Donald Trump vs. the Common Good. Plus, the man who stopped the My Lai massacre, and Katha Pollitt on Russiagate skeptics.
Newsweek
March 13, 2018
Updated | On Friday (March 9), Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison. What, if anything, does Shkreli's downfall tell us about modern America? Shkreli's early life exemplified the rags-to-riches American success story. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in April 1983, to parents whoÃâà...
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
Donald Trump once said he identified with Ayn Rand's character Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, an architect so upset that a housing project he designed didn't meet specifications he had it dynamited. Others in Trump's circle were influenced by Rand. Atlas Shrugged was said to be the favorite book ofÃâà...
UC Berkeley
December 31, 1999
This week, in an effort to bridge political divides, UC Berkeley played host to a spirited but friendly conversation between two economists well known for their opposing views: UC Berkeley public policy professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Stephen Moore, a visiting fellow from theÃâà...
