Robert Reich

Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history

Robert Reich

Aug 23, 2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-worst?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Pulitzer Prize winner Caitlin Dickerson speaks with @davidfrum on ICE’s explosive growth, Trump’s detention surge, and the future of U.S. immigration enforcement.

Watch the full episode of “The David Frum Show” here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/08/david-frum-show-immigration-caitlin-dickerson/683931/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYSKDUlIoLKem6vH-kKzqDdA&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Boy Who Cried Hoax

Alternative facts have become alternative realities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/trump-gabbard-russia-hoax.html?smid=em-share

The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump

The president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-intrusion-lincoln-roosevelt.html?smid=em-share

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

“The Trump administration ranks among the most intrusive in American history, driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.”

We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It.

Trump may be able to escape the consequences of his actions; the rest of us cannot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/america-short-term-thinking.html?smid=em-share

“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in another era of destruction, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” We may be fated to live in such a time. But what new world will be born after this time?