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Robert O’Brien says he has not seen evidence Russia is boosting Trump but seizes on report Moscow is backing Bernie Sanders Donald Trump’s national security adviser has said he has not “seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything” to get the president re-elected, but also seemed to accept reports that Russia is backing Bernie […] More
Facing existential challenges, we must spend heavily on a Green New Deal, Medicare for All and similar plans In Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg charged that the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ policy proposals would cost $50tn. Holy Indiana. Related: Wisconsin’s dairy farmers see bleak future for ‘America’s Dairyland’ Continue […] More
More than 1,000 public servants decry presidential interference Aide Conway claims justice system rigged against Trump Robert Reich: assaulting justice, Trump has out-Nixoned Nixon More than 1,000 former US justice department officials, including some of the top government lawyers in the country, have called on attorney general William Barr to resign in the wake of […] More
After Watergate, we worked for impartiality. Trump, Roger Stone and William Barr have dragged us back to the swamp “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said. My first job after law school was as an attorney at the Department of Justice (DoJ). I reported for work September […] More
If the choice comes down to tyrant or oligarch, we must choose the latter. But our democracy would still be in peril We haven’t seen his name on any of the ballots in the first four states, but that’s about to change. I’m talking, of course, about multibillionaire presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg has a […] More
Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump Robert Reich I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our disunion, not its only cause Donald Trump speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Of course Donald Trump is a racist – and his Wall Street enablers know it Robert Reich Jamie Dimon and other big-earning CEOs are bankrolling the Republican assault on America. They must work to stop it Donald Trump greets business leaders beside president and CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon, at the […] More
