Robert Reich

The nation's major economic problem isn't the federal budget deficit. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both. Read More

When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans begin to quiet down, the president will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy. Our central challenge, President Obama should say, is not to reduce the budget deficit. It’s to create more good jobs, grow the economy, and widen the circle of prosperity. Read More

This is for those of you who consider yourself to be progressive but have given up on politics because it seems rotten to the core. Your cynicism is understandable. But cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you succumb to it, the regressives who want to take this nation back to the 19th century win it all. Read More

President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. It’s good policy, and it would smoke out Mitt Romney as being of, by, and for Wall Street — and not on the side of average Americans. Read More

Under the surface, Rep. Ryan is a right-wing zealot. Nothing he says or believes is reasonable – neither logical nor reflecting the values of a majority of Americans. Your job is to smoke Ryan out, exposing his fanaticism Read More