Robert Reich
Jewish Millionaires Tell Congress: Don’t Cut Our Taxes!
Among the signers of the letter are George Soros, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s.
An Inconvenient Economic Truth
“Inequality For All,” a new documentary film premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival does for economic inequality what “An Inconvenient Truth” did for climate change.
Connect the Dots: IDF vs. Rabbis, Silencing the 99%
Sometimes the biggest news isn’t found in a hot new scoop, but in a recapitulation of a string of things you knew about but hadn’t put together already—or in little details that flesh out a trend you’d heard about, showing you how fast it’s building up.
Bank of Israel Governor Stan Fischer Mulls IMF Run
The Wall Street Journal reports that Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel,
Jews and the Enthusiasm Gap
The buzzword is enthusiasm this midterm election season. In the Wall Street Journal in early August, Robert Reich wrote about “The Obama Agenda and the Enthusiasm Gap.” By month’s end, the New York Times editorialized about “The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm.” Across the political spectrum – and borne out in primary turnout numbers this summer – conservatives are viewed as far more excited than liberals about their candidates for U.S. House and Senate, governorships and statehouses.