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Robert Reich's writes at robertreich.substack.com. His latest book is "THE SYSTEM: Who Rigged It, How To Fix It." He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written 17 other books, including the best sellers "Aftershock,""The Work of Nations," "Beyond Outrage," and "The Common Good." He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, founder of Inequality Media, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentaries "Inequality For All," streaming on YouTube, and "Saving Capitalism," now streaming on Netflix. Source

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Seriously, Where Does Trump's Power Come From?

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Trump yesterday at the close of NATO meetings Friends, At the NATO summit just ended, Trump lashed out at other NATO members, saying he was “very disappointed with NATO” and asking “Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and they’re not there for us?” He reiterated his desire to take over Greenland, blasted European energy and immigration policies, insulted Spain, and worried allies by declaring that the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow “doesn’t affect us.” Yet throughout the...
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Trump's Iran Debacle Has Become a "Neverending War"

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, By now you’ve probably heard the latest news that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has officially surrendered to Trump, and American soldiers are now occupying Tehran. I just made that up. But who the hell knows?
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Join us live tonight

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, Many of you have already signed up for tonight’s final free live watchalong of The Last Class film — about my final semester of teaching (after more than 40 years), and also about education, democracy, leadership, and the arc of life. I’ll be joining Elliot Kirschner (the film’s director) and Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse (executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action and also the film’s producer), as we watch it along with you — starting at 5:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 p.m. ET.
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ICE is now even WORSE

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, If you’re like me, you don’t want to think about anything Trump is doing that you don’t have to think about. The horrific domestic police called ICE, for example, appears to have quieted down. So we can erase it from our minds, right? Wrong. ICE has not quieted down. It’s even worse. It’s just become less visible. ICE has quietly doubled its immigrant arrest quota. It’s now arresting 2,000 people per day.
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Is Space X Crashing?

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, Today, on their first day of trading on the Nasdaq-100 stock index, SpaceX’s shares dropped 6.8% to $149.47. That’s above their IPO price of $135, but down from a peak above $200, and below the $150 price where shares began trading on June 12. SpaceX’s decline disappointed investors who wagered that inclusion in major indexes would provide a boost to the shares.
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Stop Private Equity from Profiting while Our Communities Burn

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, Private equity firms are buying up all sorts of things that fire departments rely on — and jacking up their prices. This is particularly harmful to volunteer fire departments, which make up about 85 percent of fire departments in the country and operate on shoestring budgets. Even modest price increases on software can limit a fire department’s ability to protect the public.
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Office Hours: Who's the worst elected official in America today (other than Trump)?

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, Today I’m going to ask you to make a difficult decision: name the worst elected official in America today, other than Trump. The point of this exercise is not for you to become any more discouraged with American politics but to highlight that Trump is hardly the only horrendously awful elected official in America. A second purpose is to name (and shame) elected officials who deserve to be better known for the horrible things they’ve said and done.
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Platner Must Exit, Now

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, I’ve been an enthusiastic proponent of young progressives who are now taking on establishment Democrats — and winning. But lest there be any doubt about where I stand on the candidacy of Maine’s Graham Platner, I want to make it clear. He should exit the race, and exit now. The evidence against him appears credible — and it’s appalling. The people of Maine deserve to be represented by someone whose character is exemplary.
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How Trump Ruined the World Cup

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By Robert Reich
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Friends, Make no mistake. I’m rooting for the U.S. as we take on Belgium today in Seattle for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals. But the game isn’t what it was — before Trump got FIFA president Gianni Infantino to lift the suspension of America’s top scorer, striker Folarin Balogun, who got a red card in a match against Bosnia and Herzegovina and would otherwise have been suspended from tonight’s match.
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Why Is He Using the Communist Trump Card?

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By Robert Reich
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The cover of “Is This Tomorrow,” an anti-communist comic book published in 1947, suggests the chaos and ruin that would follow a communist takeover of the United States. The publications reflected a fevered politics that prevailed after World War II and through the 1950s.
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