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Robert Reich Guest/Host
Robert Reich

University of California, Berkeley

Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It, and Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.  A former senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, from 1993 to 1997 he served as US Secretary of Labor.

FROM Robert Reich

Should Trump criticize the judicial branch?
Left, Right & Center

Should Trump criticize the judicial branch? President Trump's travel ban gets slapped down in court.

28 MIN, 31 SEC Feb 10, 2017

Bernie's New Role, the Woman Card & Lucifer
Left, Right & Center

Bernie's New Role, the Woman Card & Lucifer Bernie Sanders will fight for a more left-wing platform and Lucifer gets a running mate.

29 MIN, 17 SEC Apr 29, 2016

A Supreme Court Nominee, and Obama Nudges Bernie to Get Out
Left, Right & Center

A Supreme Court Nominee, and Obama Nudges Bernie to Get Out Are we on a runaway Trump train?

29 MIN, 19 SEC Mar 18, 2016

Robert Reich on Trump and Sanders
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Robert Reich on Trump and Sanders Bernie Sanders says the economic deck is stacked in favor of the wealthy. And Donald Trump appeals to Americans who don’t trust politicians; he says they dance to the tune of whoever gives them money. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says they’re both right: our economy and our government policies concentrate too much wealth and power in the hands of too few.

12 MIN Oct 21, 2015

Can Corporations Be Patriots?
To the Point

Can Corporations Be Patriots? Congress adjourned for the summer with tax reform still caught in political gridlock. Since then, President Obama has seized on a tax proposal once buried in his budget to attack a practice multi-national companies use to avoid paying taxes in the US; it’s called “corporate inversion.”

36 MIN, 15 SEC Aug 12, 2014

Fiscal Cliff Forever; Saucy Scalia; and Double Pope
Left, Right & Center

Fiscal Cliff Forever; Saucy Scalia; and Double Pope Sequester madness begins today, the Supreme Court takes on the Voting Rights Act and gay marriage, a tough-sentence for Bradley Manning, and coming soon: a new Pope.

28 MIN, 37 SEC Mar 01, 2013

Bailout Bill Goes to the White House
To the Point

Bailout Bill Goes to the White House Congress reconsidered what's now called the "economic rescue" plan amid dismal news about employment and California's need for a big federal loan. Today the bailout passed by 263 to 171. Saying that passage of the bill won't get us out of the recession, Republican leader John Boehner admitted that "it'll be a whole lot rougher ride if we don't pass this bill." Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, acknowledged that in "my own state of California, officials -- including the governor -- are urgently calling for federal legislation to avoid economic catastrophe." Will the bill resolve the credit crisis? Will taxpayers make money on a $700 billion investment? We ask those questions today.

20 MIN, 23 SEC Oct 03, 2008

Is Home Schooling a Challenge to Public Schools?
To the Point

Is Home Schooling a Challenge to Public Schools? Home schooling is on the increase as an alternative to what's called the "cultural monopoly" of public schools. After decades of courtroom battles, the practice is legal in every state, some of which regulate it while others don't, and has become an increasing challenge to what's called "the monopoly" of public schools. Most home schooling is still for religious reasons, but secular families are getting in on the action, too. Do home-schooled children get the preparation they need to compete in a complex, high-tech society? Should they be monitored and tested by government, or is the whole point that education should be left to parents alone? What about the rules of democracy and learning to live where religious and ethnic diversity are facts of life?

33 MIN, 47 SEC Aug 31, 2006

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What happens when America retreats from the world?
To the Point

What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.

51 MIN, 13 SEC Jun 01, 2017

Janesville and the American Dream
To the Point

Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years.  On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.

51 MIN, 19 SEC May 29, 2017

White House budget proposal slashes and burns
To the Point

White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?

50 MIN, 44 SEC May 24, 2017

Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe?
To the Point

Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?

51 MIN, 22 SEC Jun 13, 2017

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