Robert Reich's writes at robertreich.substack.com. His latest book is "THE SYSTEM: Who Rigged It, How To Fix It." He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow…
Taking on Your TweetsPeople like to argue with…
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Taking on Your Tweets People like to argue with me on Twitter, but a lot of what they have to say is just plain wrong (and sometimes mean). Billionaire defenders. Austerity…
How We Stop a Gerrymandering CatastropheEarlier this month,…
Sunday, March 20, 2022 How We Stop a Gerrymandering Catastrophe Earlier this month, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling and allowed Alabama’s egregious gerrymandered Congressional map to remain in place. There’s no reason…
How I ran Bonobos while secretly struggling with…
In 2016, on the precipice of selling Bonobos, the menswear startup I'd been building for the previous nine years, I flew into a manic spiral and was hospitalized for a week in the psych ward…
McDonalds snack wrap review in photos
I would personally have no problem waiting a few minutes longer for a snack wrap, but McDonald's has to consider operations and efficiency on a larger scale, and the speed of every order is impacted,…
The Beer & Booze Company Behind Corona, Svedka…
Welcome to the Consumerist Archives Thanks for visiting Consumerist.com. As of October 2017, Consumerist is no longer producing new content, but feel free to browse through our archives. Here you can find 12 years worth…
Enforcers take action to protect building superintendents and…
Series: The New Labor Law Enforcers State attorneys general, district attorneys, and localities like cities are increasingly key players in protecting workers’ rights. This new series by Terri Gerstein provides snapshots of enforcement and other…
One year in, the American Rescue Plan has…
March 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). This $1.9 trillion dollar relief package was both an emergency measure to help the nation through the worst pandemic…
Enforcers take action to protect workers from workplace…
Series: The New Labor Law Enforcers State attorneys general, district attorneys, and localities like cities are increasingly key players in protecting workers’ rights. This new series by Terri Gerstein provides snapshots of enforcement and other…
The unequal toll of COVID-19 on workers
The surge of the Omicron variant in the United States sickened millions, hospitalized young people at record rates, killed Americans at a far higher rate relative to other high-income countries, and led to widespread work…