Robert Reich

Where were the federal regulators? Nowhere to be seen.

Biden’s failure to make the right to vote his highest priority — to visibly fight for it, make it his own personal cause, and go on the road to take that cause to the American people — is not only bad policy for the nation. It’s also bad politics.

I’m afraid history will show that, in this shameful era, Republican senators were more united in their opposition to voting rights than Democratic senators were in their support for them.

Government must play an active role solving other fundamental problems — ending poverty, reducing inequality, battling climate change and fighting systemic racism.

One big lesson from the Covid crisis: lying makes it worse.

The first 100 days of the Biden presidency were also the first 100 days of America without Trump, and the two cannot be separated.

If this isn’t an impeachable offense, it’s hard to imagine what is.

That the attempted coup failed shouldn’t blind us to its significance or the stain it has left on America. Nor to the importance of holding those responsible fully accountable.

Leading Republicans such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are going along with it because donors are refilling GOP coffers.

Now is the time for other Republican leaders to exercise true leadership and ask the nation to unify behind Biden.

How are you feeling about Tuesday’s election?

What’s at stake is not partisan politics. It is representative government. If Democrats get the opportunity, they must redress this growing imbalance — for the sake of democracy.

It’s a tortured, topsy-turvy view of what’s public and what’s private. Yet it’s remarkably prevalent as the pandemic resurges and as the Senate considers Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court.

This nation is in serious need of protection from him, and from the bottom-dwellers whose behavior he incites and justifies.

Donald Trump is on the verge of accomplishing what no American president has ever achieved — a truly multiracial, multi-class, bipartisan political coalition so encompassing that it could realign U.S. politics for years to come.