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Robert Reich is the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

He has served as labor secretary in the Clinton administration, as an assistant to the solicitor general in the Ford administration and as head of the Federal Trade Commission's policy planning staff during the Carter administration.

He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His weekly commentaries on public radio’s "Marketplace" are heard by nearly five million people.

In 2003, Mr. Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2005, his play, Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod.

Mr. Reich has been a member of the faculties of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Obama-Clinton in 2012. It’s a Natural.

Dec 29, 2011| 1

My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position... Read »

Why the Republican Crackup is Bad For America

Dec 20, 2011| 

Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse... Read »

The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, but Who It’s For

Dec 19, 2011| 

The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all,... Read »

Newt’s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes

Dec 14, 2011| 

Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness. Every dollar estimate I’m about to share with... Read »

Are Mitt and Newt Channeling their Inner Progressives?

Dec 12, 2011| 

Two important reforms are stopping the revolving door between Washington and the nation’s financial giants, and preventing financiers from flipping companies(making... Read »

The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street

Dec 11, 2011| 

Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations... Read »

How to Avoid Being a Principled Republican on Taxes

Dec 5, 2011| 

Every time I try to make sense of Republican tax doctrine I get lost. For example, rank-and-file House Republicans are willing to increase taxes on the middle class... Read »

The Jobs Report: Don’t Break Out the Champagne

Dec 2, 2011| 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey shows unemployment at 8.6 percent, and the payroll survey shows 120,000 new jobs in November (140,000 from the... Read »

The Rebirth of Social Darwinism

Dec 1, 2011| 

What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I’ve been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared... Read »

Restore the Basic Bargain

Nov 28, 2011| 

For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers... Read »

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