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Join American academic, writer, and political commentator Robert Reich, who has served in three Presidential administrations, and award-winning filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth as they discuss their new documentary "Inequality for All." In the film, Reich makes a passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, and demonstrates how today’s widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy and truly affects every one of us.
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The Resistance Report with Robert Reich provides in-depth context about the unique, emerging, and urgent issues of the day for people across the political spectrum who care about America and its democratic institutions.
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Friends, Sorry to intrude on you again today but I need to add this week’s winner of the Neville Chamberlain Award, given to the most cowardly effort to appease a tyrant. (This week’s original winners were Shari Redstone and Paramount, for intruding on the editorial independence of “60 Minutes” in order to suck up to Trump, so he’d settle his frivo…
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Friends, I’m sad to share with you the news that Alexis Herman, who succeeded me as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, has died. Alexis was the first Black person to hold that job. I knew her as a gifted administrator and dedicated public servant. Under President Carter, she was the youngest person to direct the women’s bureau at the…
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Friends, Today, Heather and I take a look at the shi*tstorm of Trump’s first hundred days (which doesn’t officially conclude until Wednesday), and ask what happened, why it’s so horrible, and how we’re likely to look back on it. Along the way, we examine whether its major theme has been chaos or cruelty, what’s happened to the economy, and why Trum…
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Friends, Some Democrats fear they’re playing into Trump’s hands by fighting his mass deportations rather than focusing on his failures on bread-and-butter issues like the cost of living. But it’s not either-or. The theme that unites Trump’s inept handling of deportations, his trampling on human and civil rights, his rejection of the rule of law, hi…
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Friends, The week’s Joseph Welch Award for courage in the face of American tyranny goes to two senators whose actions epitomize Joseph Welch when he stood up to Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954. The first is Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who traveled to El Salvador to seek answers about the detention and safety of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland …
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Donald Trump's "divide and conquer" strategy.Af Inequality Media
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The Memo and The Muelller Investigation
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On this Resistance Report we talk about the controversy over the memo that Trump and Republicans want to release, and what it means for Mueller investigation.Af Inequality Media
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We're looking at Donald Trump's racist past and whether Republicans will stand for it. We also examine how Trump's policies are already affecting average working people in the US. Lastly, we talk about what you can and must do over the next 10 months leading up to the November elections.Af Inequality Media
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Tonight we look at Trump's latest efforts to derail the Mueller investigation and take attention away from Michael Wolff's new book "Fire and Fury".Af Inequality Media
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We look at Fox News and how they are laying the ground work for Trump to fire Robert Mueller. Why is Fox News doing this? Because of the oligarchs behind all of this who got their big pay off from the biggest tax cut in history.Af Inequality Media
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I'm talking to Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning author and thinker about global economics. We're talking about the rules regulating global trade, who has the power to set those rules, and the possibility of making free trade work towards more widely shared gains.Af Inequality Media
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Tonight we anticipate the race in Alabama as a test of American institutions, the moral decency of voters in Alabama, and a test for the Republican party under Trump. Then we take a look at the Treasury Department's so-called report on the effects of the Republican tax plan. It is a single page that effectively says their tax cuts cannot be paid fo…
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Robert Reich and Jacob Kornbluth: Meet the Filmmaker
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Join American academic, writer, and political commentator Robert Reich, who has served in three Presidential administrations, and award-winning filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth as they discuss their new documentary "Inequality for All." In the film, Reich makes a passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, and demonstrates how today’s widening inco…
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