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  • 1 week ago | rawstory.com | Robert Reich

    What’s the biggest single economic challenge facing working and middle-class Americans? Housing. Its supply isn’t nearly keeping up with demand. This means higher home prices and higher rents. Data released by the Census Bureau yesterday shows fewer housing starts in May than in any month since the 2020 pandemic. So what’s Trump doing about the slump in new housing? Three things. All will worsen it. 1. He’s put a tariff on Canadian lumber, which is driving up the cost of a key component of new homes.

  • 1 week ago | whowhatwhy.org | Robert Reich

    Peter Thiel’s Palantir epitomizes the potential perversion of miraculous technology to nefarious purposes. Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to Artificial Intelligence. Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military. A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans.

  • 1 week ago | robertreich.substack.com | Robert Reich |Heather Lofthouse

    Friends,Today Heather and I look at the war in Iran through the lens of Donald Trump’s insatiable need to expand and display his power. How can he even consider getting America into this war without consulting Congress? Doesn’t doing so also violate his promise to the American people in the 2024 election that he would avoid foreign entanglements?

  • 1 week ago | rawstory.com | Robert Reich

    Draw a circle around all the assets in America now devoted to Artificial Intelligence. Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the U.S. military. A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans. And a fourth circle around the parts of Silicon Valley dedicated to turning the United States away from a democracy into a libertarian dictatorship led by tech bros. Where do the four circles intersect?

  • 1 week ago | znetwork.org | Robert Reich

    The Supreme Court’s recent unanimous ruling in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves. On the surface, the ruling seems innocent enough. The court merely decided that white and straight employees who allege they’ve been discriminated against don’t need to meet a higher standard of proof than do Black or LGBTQ+ employees who sue for discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

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