NEW: Is "Buy Now, Pay Later" too good to be true?
It sounds like a sweet deal, but it carries alarming risks for consumers and our economy as a whole.
Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains.
This anti-war PSA that aired during the Vietnam War. Its message is sadly still very relevant today.
Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10% during his campaign.
After the election? Not a peep.
Instead, his administration has showered credit card companies with favors, tax breaks, and deregulation — all at your expense.
Another forever war in the Middle East.
Kristi Noem’s Mount Rushmore sized corruption.
An abysmal jobs report.
Special guest @wkamaubell and I discuss the week that was (and more!) on a new Coffee Klatch. Join us.
https://youtu.be/pWzKLEiITN8
Trump's war with Iran, like so many other U.S.-backed coups and regime change wars, could lead to disastrous blowback.
Watch Bernie Sanders' warning from 2016.
Billionaires love to claim that they need to keep their vast fortunes so they can continue donating to good causes.
But as Billie Eilish points out, most of them really aren’t all that generous.
Watch.
It’s bad enough we’re subsidizing billionaire sports team owners to build stadiums.
Then they turn around and price-gouge us on tickets and concessions? It’s absurd.
But there’s a way we can fight back. Watch.
NEW: From groceries to healthcare to housing, has Donald Trump delivered on anything he promised voters?
@rbreich.bsky.social breaks down Trump's biggest broken promises.
In one of the final speeches of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for America to muster the political will to end poverty.
The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy.
What happens when that bubble bursts?
Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks United workers in New York.
Listen to their powerful message of solidarity.
Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks United workers in New York.
Listen to their powerful message of solidarity.
Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year ($1 trillion over ten years!).
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
The system is broken.
Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir Technologies, the backbone of Trump's anti-immigrant police state.
New York lawmakers have proposed requiring retailers to disclose when they use "surveillance pricing" tactics to gouge consumers.
It's a much-needed step towards reining in how companies can weaponize your personal data.
Watch Lina Khan explain how it works.
Rising grocery prices resulting from Trump’s failure to keep his biggest promise will hit all of us — no matter who we voted for.
Remember this at the Thanksgiving table this year.
Zohran Mamdani has called for a boycott of Starbucks until the company can bargain a fair contract with its striking workers. We joined members of the mayor-elect's team on the Starbucks picket line in NYC.
America has always had a two-tiered economy.
But today’s widening gap between the richest Americans and everyone else is so extreme that even the CEOs of America’s largest corporations are worried.
Here’s why.
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]
