NEW: Jimmy Kimmel is coming back on the air — less than a week after Disney caved to pressure from Trump's FCC Chair to silence him. This is a testament to the power of consumer boycotts.

Today is Robert Reich's favorite holiday — National Voter Registration Day! nationalvoterregistrationday.org

NEW: With Trump acting as both POTUS and as his own crypto brand ambassador, it’s hard to tell which job he’s doing at any given moment. There’s no “potential conflict of interest” here. It’s pure corruption.

NEW: Energy prices are soaring. So what is Trump doing about it? Gutting clean energy projects while showering his Big Oil donors with billions of dollars in special tax breaks.

In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for “law and order.”

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

Remember when all Trump talked about was how he would make groceries cheaper?

The cruel attempt to strip due process from immigrants is an attack on all of us. If government can arbitrarily target one group today, they can target anyone tomorrow.

Everyday Americans are tired of getting screwed over while the richest of the rich siphon off the economy’s gains. Here's how we build a politics that puts working people first.

A top DOGE operative put the IRS' free tax filing tool on the chopping block just days after meeting with tax prep software lobbyists. It's yet another example of how DOGE is putting the needs of billionaires and corporations ahead of the American people.

Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It’s part of a larger plan – one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think.

Remember this the next time the undocumented are called "freeloaders." [Via @_itep]

NEW: Is your personal data being weaponized against you when you shop? Are you paying a different price for products than anyone else? Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains the shady corporate tactic known as “surveillance pricing.”

Our latest video features the one and only Lina Khan, a true public servant and the oligarchy's worst nightmare!

"We seek not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result." 60 years ago today, LBJ explained what freedom really means.

A recent FTC report found that the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen for 80% of prescriptions — jacked up the price of lifesaving medications by as much as 7,736%. The result? $7.3 billion in extra revenue from 2017 through 2022.

“You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up.” The movie ‘A Bug’s Life’ has a lot to teach us about power.

The system is broken.

Trump and his nativist lackeys keep spewing hatred and lies about immigrants. Here's the truth.

Since taking office, Donald Trump has declared eight national emergencies to justify his radical agenda. But there is only one real national emergency: Trump himself.

NEW: DOGE's cuts are barely saving anything — and the disruption they’ve caused far outweighs any savings. Here are seven ways they're making your life worse.

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Trump wants the rich to be richer, unions to be weaker, and everyone else to be easier to exploit. He's not ushering in a New Golden Age. He's taking us back to the Gilded Age.

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

Last week, Trump fired the three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC regulates the safety of everyday consumer products. Guess who recently sued the agency and claimed that it's "unconstitutional"? Amazon. Follow the money.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says it's legal for Trump to accept a luxury jumbo jet from Qatar. Here's the kicker: Just five years ago, Bondi earned $115,000 a month as a registered lobbyist for the government of Qatar. Nothing to see here, folks!

Our rigged system in a nutshell. When the rich become richer, they can use their vast wealth to pour money into our democracy and rig the system to enrich themselves even more. We must get Big Money out of politics.

The three decades after WWII ushered in levels of widely shared prosperity the US had never seen. Things weren't perfect, but we seemed to understand the importance of unions and that the real "job creators" are Americans workers whose rising wages generated economic growth.

What corporate monopolies are doing to grocery prices is no small potatoes. Watch.

Average global CEO pay has skyrocketed 50% since 2019 to $4.3M. By contrast, average worker pay has risen just 0.9% over that same time period.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

This is your Tax Day reminder of how the ultra-wealthy use death to cheat taxes.

The real reason DOGE has spent tax season gutting the IRS? To help billionaires like Elon Musk skirt what they owe.

Today seems like a great day to debunk these 12 myths about taxing the rich.

Make no mistake: Trump's tariffs are a tax hike on YOU.

Gutting the IRS isn't “efficiency." It’s helping billionaires evade taxes, pure and simple.

"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968

"Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights." In the final speech of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized the importance of freedom of speech and assembly.

Robert Reich has been debunking the same right-wing myths about raising the minimum wage for over 30 years.

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - Justice Louis Brandeis

Last year, the CFPB classified "buy-now-pay-later" apps in the same category as credit cards to better protect consumers. Is it any wonder that Big Tech billionaires pushed so hard to gut the CFPB? More Silicon Valley "innovation."

Last year, the CFPB classified "buy-now-pay-later" apps in the same category as credit cards to better protect consumers. Is it any wonder that Big Tech billionaires pushed so hard to gut the CFPB? More Silicon Valley "innovation."

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - Justice Louis Brandeis

DOGE is a trojan horse to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If DOGE actually wanted to cut waste, it would end the massive tax loopholes, contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations.

What happens when corporate monopolies dominate? Less competition, higher prices, no escape.

Half of Americans have less than $500 in savings, according to recent estimates. Meanwhile, the combined wealth of the three richest men in the world is roughly $740B. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.  Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

Millionaires are officially done paying into Social Security for the rest of 2025 as of today.  If we want to ensure Social Security’s long term future, we must scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

"These are the invisible workers of America, tens of millions of them, working harder than they have ever worked before and barely making it." Watch Robert Reich's 1995 speech busting right-wing minimum wage myths.

The minimum wage debate has been muddied by right-wing mistruths and myths. @rbreich.bsky.social debunked four of the biggest whoppers in this 1995 speech.

Other countries won't pay the cost of Trump's new tariffs. You will.