All Robert Reich
National income tax: a century of progressive taxes. More ahead?National income tax was a key victory for progressives after Gilded Age when money ruled. The 16th Amendment, authorizing a national income tax, was the first new amendment in 40 years.
Jobs report: why the recovery has stalledFriday's jobs report shows that聽the government is heading in exactly the wrong direction by raising taxes on the middle class and cutting spending, Reich writes.
Why consumers are so glumConsumers are聽deeply worried about their jobs and their incomes, Reich writes, and they have every right to be.
Society is not a zero-sum gameWealthy Americans would do better with smaller shares of a rapidly-growing economy than with the large shares they now possess of an economy that鈥檚 barely moving, Reich writes.
How Obama is unraveling Reagan RepublicanismPresident Obama has finally found ways to exploit these inconsistencies the Republican party, Reich writes.聽
The rich, not the poor, must make sacrifices
Chuck Hagel vs. the neoconsThat the neocons hate Chuck Hagel is the best sign yet that he may be the right person for the job, Reich writes.
Obama's debt-ceiling strategy needs GOP cooperationPresident Obama鈥檚 debt-ceiling strategy depends on there being enough willingness to cooperate left in the GOP, Reich writes.
On guns and debt, Obama should use authorityPresident Obama's executive authority to pay the nation鈥檚 bills or broadly interpret gun laws already on the books could be useful in pending negotiations with congressional Republicans, Reich writes.
Want to avoid bailouts? Break up the big banks.It's time to limit the size of banks and break up the biggest ones on Wall Street, Reich writes.
Jobs: the key to a recoveryJob growth and wage growth should be the central focus of economic policy, not deficit reduction,聽Reich writes.
After the fiscal cliff comes the debt ceilingThe battle over the fiscal cliff was only a prelude to the coming battle over raising the debt ceiling 鈥� Reich writes 鈥� a battle that will likely continue through early March, when the Treasury runs out of tricks to avoid a default on the nation鈥檚 debt.
Senate 'fiscal cliff' deal is lousyHere are four reasons the 'fiscal cliff' deal emerging from the Senate doesn't serve America well. President Obama could have done better in negotiations with the Republicans.
Will Republicans avert the fiscal cliff? Don't bet on it.Despite public opinion running against the GOP, House Republicans are looking less interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, Reich writes.
Is US headed to 'A Wonderful Life' 鈥� or Pottersville?America's better off now than when Frank Capra filmed 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But today, the 'Potters' of this world call themselves 'job creators' and brand George Baileys as socialists.聽
Boehner's failure signals marginalization of GOPIf House Speaker John Boehner can't get Republicans to back a tax increase for the richest 0.3 percent of Americans, it has lost its claim to mainstream status.
Fiscal cliffhanger: Obama's unwise concessionsPresident Barack Obama has returned to making premature and unnecessary concessions to Republicans in the fiscal cliff debate, Reich writes.
Why is Washington obsessing over deficits, not jobs?Cutting the budget deficit 鈥� either by reducing public spending or raising taxes on the middle class, or both 鈥� will slow the economy and increase unemployment, Reich writes.
Why billionaires will still pour millions into politicsAs income and wealth become ever more concentrated in America, the nation鈥檚 corporations and billionaires will invest even more in politics, Reich writes.
Fiscal cliff overshadows inequality in the heartlandAs Washington fiddles over the fiscal cliff, a larger battle over inequality is being waged all over America, Reich writes.
