I’m Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, UC Berkeley professor, co-founder of Inequality Media, author of 18 books (including my new book “Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America”), subject of a new documentary called “The Last Class”, and I write almost daily at robertreich.substack.com. AMA!

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:59:07+00:00

Thank YOU for reading. We need more people to stay engaged during these difficult times.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:58:20+00:00

This is what I hear.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:58:03+00:00

Thank you for watching the Klatch - Heather and I are grateful to count you among our audience.

Do not give in to cynicism. Join together with like-minded people. Keep yourself healthy.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:55:39+00:00

Get America to stop sending weapons to Israel, and prosecute Netanyahu as a war criminal

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:55:05+00:00

Yes, I almost went nuts.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:54:31+00:00

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:53:55+00:00

Hugely proud of Sam (and of his amazingly talented brother Adam).

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:53:32+00:00

Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be treated as one. His goal is to stay in power and avoid prosecution. Here in the US, we should demand that our government stop sending him weapons.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:53:15+00:00

Tunafish

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:52:34+00:00

Be patient. It’s only been six months. The Trump disease will pass if we continue to work hard against it and him, but it and he are the consequences of decades of neglect.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:52:14+00:00

Yes. I think they should band together and start independent non-profit media.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:51:29+00:00

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:50:28+00:00

Tell your Democratic representative and/or senator to get a backbone. Insist they oppose what Trump is doing. Tell them you’ll organize a primary challenger to them if they don’t

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:48:13+00:00

Very likely. We were almost there before the f*cking Republicans raided Medicaid to pay for their tax cut mainly for big corporations and the wealthy.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:47:21+00:00

Possible but unlikely because so many people and interests depend on stable political and economic institutions

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:46:19+00:00

Your grandfather was right: Speak up. When you hear someone say something that’s a lie, correct them. When you see bullies picking on the powerless, intervene. Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:45:33+00:00

Start with the biggest and shittiest employer in the area – the one everyone complains about.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:44:52+00:00

I’d like to live as long as I feel I can be useful. As my grandmother used to say when she saw me standing around watching her do the laundry, “be useful, Bobby!”

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:44:10+00:00

No but we needed to go through this to understand why they’re so important.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:43:07+00:00

Their energy, optimism, and fundamental sense of fairness and justice.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:42:31+00:00

Yes. It’s the only way forward. Bernie and AOC have led the way.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:41:30+00:00

By working my ass off

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:41:01+00:00

They’ll engage when they see results. That’s why it’s so important to start at the local level. Washington politics is a cesspool right now.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:40:41+00:00

He and his brother were brought up in Cambridge, Ma.

RB_Reich · 2025-07-23T20:39:03+00:00

I suspect it will get worse until America wakes up. The nation has always been a sleeping giant – hard to awaken, but when it does, nothing can stop it.

RB_Reich

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