Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, contributes regular opinion pieces on-line and to various print papers, among them, the San Francisco Chronicle.  Today he has an interesting take:
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Gail Collins is on my daily read list.  Sometimes she’s a bit too cute, a bit too Maureen Dowdish, but more often she approaches the diva of top columnists, Molly … [Keep reading >>]

You know we’re about at the point where the explosions going off in our heads at each days news is beginning to to change from warnings and prompts to action … [Keep reading >>]

…some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors gathered Tuesday – not inside his tony San Francisco fundraiser at the W Hotel, but outside on the sidewalks carrying signs in protest … [Keep reading >>]

“President Obama is scheduled to appear before hundreds of donors at a $7,500-a-plate noontime fundraiser today at San Francisco’s W Hotel – but not a single local reporter will be … [Keep reading >>]

We couldn’t have been more shocked in Como, Italy a few days ago to see this photo, enormous and above the front page fold of La Stampa, one of Italy’s … [Keep reading >>]

Frank Rich and Adam Moss talk about what’s really in Ron Suskind’s new book, The Confidence Men.  It’s pretty ugly all the way around.  Reminds me of the incompetence, weakness,  … [Keep reading >>]

The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air-quality rules nationwide to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, which said the new … [Keep reading >>]

“Richard Trumka, president of union giant AFL-CIO, delivered a scathing review of President Barack Obama at a press breakfast Thursday morning. He accused him of abandoning Democratic ideals and aligning … [Keep reading >>]

Sitting in the morning chill of Ashland, OR, cup of coffee near my lips, Measure for Measure in the wings, I was flipping through the NY Times headlines on my … [Keep reading >>]

Bernie Sanders might be the first of major public faces to call for it, but he isn’t alone,
, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to … [Keep reading >>]

“When Obama took office, he appointed some of the country’s most knowledgeable climate scientists to his Administration, and it seemed for a time as if he might take his responsibility … [Keep reading >>]