Robert Reich on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/robert_reich Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-20T15:57:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Global Capital and the Nation State http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/global_capital_and_the_nation_state_20130520/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/global_capital_and_the_nation_state_20130520/ capitalism, corporate interests, corporations, economy, global capital, tax shelters,

As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom, while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can find. Major advanced countries need a comprehensive tax agreement that won’t allow global corporations to get away with this.

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]]> 2013-05-20T15:57:00+00:00 The IRS and the Real Scandal http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_irs_and_the_real_scandal_20130519/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_irs_and_the_real_scandal_20130519/ congress, government, internal revenue service, irs, irs scandal, karl rove, politics, sham, social welfare organizations,

The Internal Revenue Service has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy individuals to make unlimited secret campaign donations through sham political fronts called “social welfare organizations,” like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Priorities USA.

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]]> 2013-05-19T15:31:00+00:00 The Problem With Obama’s Second Term http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_problem_with_obamas_second_term_20130516/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_problem_with_obamas_second_term_20130516/ associated press, barack obama, benghazi, benghazi attack, bill clinton, department of justice, george w. bush, irs, obama administration, political scandals, politics, republicans, scandals, second term,

The Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS’ investigations of right-wing groups, the Justice Department’s snooping into journalists’ phone records, Obamacare behind schedule, the administration’s push for gun control ending in failure. Whom should the blame fall on?

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]]> 2013-05-16T21:06:00+00:00 The Triumph of Progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_triumph_of_progressivism_graduation_2013_and_1968_20130514/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_triumph_of_progressivism_graduation_2013_and_1968_20130514/ college, economy, education, graduation, graduation 2013, politics,

Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. But many of you are cynical about politics. “What chance do we have against the Koch brothers and the other billionaires?” you’ve asked me. “How can we fight against Monsanto, Boeing, JPMorgan and Bank of America? They buy elections. They run America.”

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]]> 2013-05-14T17:21:00+00:00 Working Mother’s Day http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/working_mothers_day_20130512/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/working_mothers_day_20130512/ ,

The best way to celebrate Mother’s Day would be to acknowledge that most mothers are now in paid work—or seek to be—and, as working mothers, deserve better.

]]> 2013-05-12T15:40:00+00:00 Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What’s the Matter With the Military? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/sexual_assaults_and_nuclear_missiles_whats_the_matter_with_the_military_201/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/sexual_assaults_and_nuclear_missiles_whats_the_matter_with_the_military_201/ air force, department of defense, jeff krusinski, military, nuclear weapons, sexual assault, weapons,

After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults—and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so—a Defense Department study released Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the last fiscal year, up from about 19,000 the year before.

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]]> 2013-05-09T16:25:00+00:00 The Hollowing Out of Government http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_hollowing_out_of_government_20130505/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_hollowing_out_of_government_20130505/ government, government cuts, obamacare, osha, regulation, spending cuts, taxes, texas fertilizer plant explosion, west texas fertilizer plant, The West, Texas, chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 people were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985.

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]]> 2013-05-05T07:15:00+00:00 Earth to Washington: Repeal the Sequester http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/earth_to_washington_repeal_the_sequester_20130429/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/earth_to_washington_repeal_the_sequester_20130429/ austerity, congress, consumer spending, economy, jobs, politics, sequester, stock market, unemployment, wall street,

What is Washington doing to fix the economy? Worse than nothing. It has now adopted the same kind of austerity economics that’s doomed Europe—cutting federal spending and reducing total demand. And the sequester doesn’t end Sept. 30. It takes an even bigger bite out of the federal budget next fiscal year.

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