The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

By Robert Reich

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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich exposes where power lies in our system — and how it's used and abused.

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Episode Date
Will the protests hurt Biden? Saturday Coffee klatch, May 4, 2024
May 04, 2024
Why do so many Americans support a neofascist for president? | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, April 27, 2024
Apr 27, 2024
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, April 20, 2024
Apr 21, 2024
Why are food prices out of control? | The Coffee Klatch, with Michael Pollan
Apr 13, 2024
No More Bombs for Bibi? The Coffee Klatch
Apr 06, 2024
Big Money: Taxes, Trump, and Beyoncé | The Coffee Klatch
Mar 30, 2024
Is Trump Broke? | The Coffee Klatch, March 23, 2024
Mar 23, 2024
The Billionaire Takeover of America? | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, March 16, 2024
Mar 16, 2024
Biden’s Resurrection and Trump’s Diminution: Saturday Coffee Klatch, March 9, 2024
Mar 09, 2024
The beginning of the end for Trump? Saturday coffee klatch
Mar 02, 2024
Why has the Republican Party become an enemy of democracy? The Saturday coffee klatch
Feb 24, 2024
Trump’s Week from Hell: The Saturday Coffee Klatch
Feb 17, 2024
Is Biden Too Old? | The Coffee Klatch
Feb 10, 2024
Is there any good news to celebrate? Our Saturday coffee klatch, February 3, 2024
Feb 04, 2024
The real story behind Trump’s “wins” in New Hampshire and Iowa: Saturday coffee klatch
Jan 27, 2024
What the hell has happened to the Republican Party? Our Saturday Coffee Klatch
Jan 20, 2024
Will Trump walk away with the Republican nomination? Saturday Coffee Klatch
Jan 14, 2024
Will Trump ever be held accountable for his attempted coup? Saturday coffee klatch
Jan 06, 2024
Are you terrified of 2024? If not, why not? Saturday coffee klatch
Dec 30, 2023
Will Trump be off the ballot everywhere? Should he be? Saturday Coffee Klatch
Dec 23, 2023
Why are House Republicans so ready to impeach Biden with zero evidence, and unwilling to aid Ukraine? Saturday coffee klatch
Dec 17, 2023
Ukraine, Israel, Biden’s and Trump’s gaffes, and Norman Lear. The Saturday coffee klatch!
Dec 09, 2023
George Santos, Henry Kissinger, Sandra Day O’Connor, Gavin Newsom, and Ron DeSantis. It’s the Saturday Coffee Klatch!
Dec 03, 2023
Saturday coffee klatch!
Nov 26, 2023
Republican political violence and other worries from the week: The Saturday Coffee Klatch
Nov 18, 2023
Electoral wins? Trump trials? CRs? Joe Manchin? The Saturday coffee klatch!
Nov 12, 2023
The war in Gaza, Sam Bankman-Fried’s comeuppance, Trump and the culture of hype, and the October jobs report
Nov 04, 2023
Help! How do we deal with all this?
Oct 28, 2023
What should be done?
Oct 21, 2023
Trying to make sense out of tragedy and dysfunction
Oct 14, 2023
Is Kevin McCarthy toast? Kudos to the courts! Joe Biden should not bow out!
Sep 30, 2023
Why Trump wants a chaotic government shutdown, a crippling auto strike, and no more money for Ukraine
Sep 23, 2023
What do polls mean anyway?
Sep 10, 2023
Labor Day weekend, Bob’s bad cold, Trump’s bad defense strategy, the House’s bad GOP, and Heather’s son’s bad worries.
Sep 03, 2023
Trump sucks the oxygen out of the week: His arrest, mug shot, and absence from the GOP debate
Aug 27, 2023
Trump, the upcoming Republican primary debate on Fox News, and Bill O’Reilly
Aug 20, 2023
The walls closing in on Trump
Aug 13, 2023
Trump, Jobs, and Musk
Aug 06, 2023
Heather and I debut before a live audience!
Jul 30, 2023
The pending Trump indictment: Where will it end?
Jul 23, 2023
This isn’t just about Trump
Jul 16, 2023
Trump is getting Trumpier and Biden, more Bidenish
Jul 09, 2023
Trump, Big Tech, and the depths of inequality
Jun 25, 2023
Could we really elect a president who’s in prison? Yes.
Jun 17, 2023
Is this finally the end of Trump?
Jun 10, 2023
The political and the personal: Bob and Heather reveal where they got their political values
Jun 04, 2023
Where have all the heroes gone?
May 21, 2023
What’s the opposite of Republican “law and order?”
May 18, 2023
Meeting Justin Jones
May 16, 2023
Trump, Santos, Kevin McCarthy, and other loathsome people
May 14, 2023
What the hell should I do with my Cabinet chair?
May 04, 2023
The Republican threat to our children
May 02, 2023
My upcoming “retirement.”
Apr 20, 2023
Office Hours: Will Fox be detoxed?
Apr 12, 2023
What happened to accountability?
Apr 08, 2023
Trump’s April fools?
Apr 01, 2023
Is the banking system safe?
Mar 19, 2023
Want the good news or the bad news re: the economy?
Mar 12, 2023
Murdaugh, Murdoch, and Trump’s loutishness
Mar 05, 2023
Republicans are right about E.S.G., but for the wrong reason
Mar 03, 2023
Office Hours: Musk’s racism
Mar 02, 2023
AI’s biggest impact?
Feb 27, 2023
What’s Kevin McCarthy’s deal with Tucker Carlson?
Feb 26, 2023
Two notable presidential conversations with Zelensky
Feb 23, 2023
Saturday coffee klatch: Bad actors
Feb 18, 2023
Don’t let Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism
Feb 16, 2023
The death of shame
Feb 14, 2023
How do we get democracy back into presidential elections?
Feb 13, 2023
Saturday coffee klatch: Axe throwing
Feb 11, 2023
Office Hours: Why the discrepancy between what Biden has achieved and what Americans think about him?
Feb 08, 2023
Saturday coffee klatch: Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Feb 04, 2023
10 reasons you shouldn't believe Kevin McCarthy when he promises Republicans won't seek cuts in Social Security and Medicare
Feb 03, 2023
Should Trump get back his giant megaphones?
Jan 27, 2023
Saturday coffee klatch: Hitting our heads on the debt ceiling and other lowlights of the past week
Jan 21, 2023
The media's remarkable silence on the cause of California's tragic storms
Jan 16, 2023
For Speaker of the House: David Joyce. Who?
Jan 02, 2023
Staying hopeful in a cynical time: Thoughts for the new year
Dec 29, 2022
Military bloat versus unnecessary misery
Dec 19, 2022
America's growing zero-sum economy
Dec 16, 2022
When will the GOP reach the anti-Trump tipping point?
Dec 15, 2022
Texas's wacko lawsuit and my loopy labor department
Dec 09, 2022
How can we protect our democracy when the media doesn't let us know how it's being threatened?
Dec 08, 2022
The great train wreck (and other wrecks this past week)
Dec 04, 2022
ABC asks my help with Bill Clinton's obituary
Dec 02, 2022
A grotesque distortion of philanthropy
Nov 29, 2022
Thanks for Thanksgiving
Nov 27, 2022
Thanksgiving thoughts: My family leave act
Nov 24, 2022
Musk's Humongous Mistake
Nov 21, 2022
Ugh, double ugh, and ugh-and-a-half
Nov 20, 2022
Election Mop-up
Nov 13, 2022
To me, the most encouraging thing of all
Nov 11, 2022
Saved from Neofascism?
Nov 10, 2022
Why this election is different!
Nov 05, 2022
Trump Redux
Oct 24, 2022
How do we reach young people?
Oct 22, 2022
The riot that started the culture wars
Oct 21, 2022
How are you?
Oct 20, 2022
The 3 biggest GOP lies of the midterms (in addition to the Big Lie)
Oct 17, 2022
What grade would you give this week?
Oct 16, 2022
Warning: The dirty little secret of polls
Oct 13, 2022
The Kanye West paradox: How to treat noxious content on social media?
Oct 11, 2022
Why is trickle-down economics still with us?
Oct 10, 2022
How do we measure what really matters?
Oct 08, 2022
The most important protector of workers' rights you've never heard of
Oct 06, 2022
Buying a mayor
Oct 05, 2022
Office Hours: Should Elon get Twitter just because he's now willing to pay for it?
Oct 05, 2022
We get what we measure: Why policymakers overlook profits as the source of inflation
Oct 04, 2022
Trump's "death wish" for McConnell
Oct 03, 2022
Trump will be on the ballot in 5 weeks
Oct 03, 2022
What can we learn from the devastation of Hurricane Ian?
Oct 01, 2022
Hurricane Ian reminds us we're in this together
Sep 30, 2022
The three myths used by the ultra-wealthy to justify the ultra-wealthy
Sep 29, 2022
One billionaire backer of the insurrection answers me
Sep 28, 2022
Are record levels of stress inside us — or outside us?
Sep 27, 2022
The draft
Sep 26, 2022
Does Trump want to be the next messiah?
Sep 25, 2022
Russia's and China's surveillance states, and America's surveillance capitalism
Sep 23, 2022
The truth I'm telling Congress today about inflation
Sep 22, 2022
What to do about candidates who won't commit to election results?
Sep 20, 2022
A conversation* with Governor DeSantis on his trafficking-immigrants-to-Martha's Vineyard strategy
Sep 19, 2022
Are we ready to cancel the apocalypse?
Sep 17, 2022
Trump's latest threat is a doozy
Sep 16, 2022
What Dr. Phil wants me to do
Sep 12, 2022
The astounding reaction to Dobbs
Sep 09, 2022
A personal question to powerful people who continue to deny the results of the 2020 election
Sep 08, 2022
The start of another school year: a tribute to our teachers
Sep 06, 2022
The most important battle of our lifetimes
Sep 01, 2022
The second-biggest Republican lie
Aug 30, 2022
Is Ron DeSantis a fascist?
Aug 29, 2022
My father and Senator Joe McCarthy
Aug 26, 2022
The Trump Republican violence machine
Aug 25, 2022
Why CNN cancelled Brian Stelter
Aug 23, 2022
The 6 secrets to becoming a fabulously rich con artist
Aug 22, 2022
Do people really understand the fight we're in?
Aug 20, 2022
The Beginning
Aug 19, 2022
How Biden did it
Aug 18, 2022
Liz Cheney and the Dick Morris paradox
Aug 15, 2022
Will we get lost in the fog of Trump?
Aug 13, 2022
Follow the money! Small donors, big donors, and the midterms
Aug 12, 2022
The worst memo in American history
Aug 11, 2022
Why Republican candidates can't escape Trump
Aug 10, 2022
America's 30-year recession
Aug 09, 2022
What the hell did they learn at Harvard and Yale?
Aug 08, 2022
Reasons to be less depressed?
Aug 06, 2022
Viktor Orban's eugenics and the GOP
Aug 05, 2022
Kansas on my mind
Aug 04, 2022
How to stop rightwing media lies?
Aug 02, 2022
How to bask in the political limelight? Be Manchinema
Aug 01, 2022
Inflation: argggghhhhhhh!
Jul 30, 2022
I've been jilted too many times by Manchin to fall for him again
Jul 28, 2022
What's the biggest Trump Oxymoron of all?
Jul 26, 2022
The most dangerous upcoming Supreme Court decision you never heard of
Jul 25, 2022
Is Trump a monster or what?
Jul 23, 2022
A word of appreciation
Jul 22, 2022
AIPAC's horrendous role in this year's Democratic primaries
Jul 22, 2022
Why the January 6 hearings aren't just about January 6
Jul 21, 2022
How global corporations are using white Christian nationalism
Jul 19, 2022
Is it time for Democrats to kick Joe Manchin out of the party?
Jul 18, 2022
Should we call him President Manchin?
Jul 16, 2022
What Casablanca teaches us
Jul 15, 2022
Is Biden too old?
Jul 14, 2022
Capitalist Thugs
Jul 12, 2022
How to handle radical Republicans
Jul 11, 2022
Should Biden run again?
Jul 09, 2022
The Democrats' disease
Jul 08, 2022
The Republican Party: God, guns, forced birth, and strongmen
Jul 07, 2022
Bezos's inflation idiocy
Jul 05, 2022
How Democrats can still protect reproductive rights and the planet
Jul 04, 2022
On this July 4: The true meaning of patriotism
Jul 04, 2022
How do we tame a rogue Supreme Court?
Jul 02, 2022
The fate of the world
Jul 01, 2022
The beginning of the end of regulation
Jun 30, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson's chilling testimony
Jun 28, 2022
The roots of Trumpism (Part 1)
Jun 28, 2022
When I was Baby Jesus
Jun 27, 2022
The rogue court and the fight ahead
Jun 27, 2022
The extreme right on the Supreme Court and the Big Liars in the GOP
Jun 25, 2022
The shame of the Supreme Court
Jun 24, 2022
Who should benefit from fighting inflation? Average working people or bond traders?
Jun 23, 2022
Office Hours: Breaching the wall between church and state?
Jun 22, 2022
The real drama behind today's fourth hearing
Jun 21, 2022
How to end corporate welfare
Jun 21, 2022
Why the January 6 committee is failing to slow Trump's attempted coup
Jun 20, 2022
Will Merrick Garland prosecute Trump? Is Ginni toast?
Jun 18, 2022
How much I owe Alice Camp
Jun 17, 2022
The mysterious John Eastman connection
Jun 16, 2022
What the crypto crash tells us
Jun 16, 2022
Office Hours: Is there any way to push Garland to prosecute Trump?
Jun 15, 2022
What you really need to know about the likelihood of a recession
Jun 14, 2022
Liz Cheney for President?
Jun 13, 2022
How do we measure the success of the Jan 6 hearings?
Jun 11, 2022
A final thought on the hearings: How Trump will be held accountable
Jun 10, 2022
For me, the 2 biggest questions about tonight's hearings on Trump's attempted coup
Jun 10, 2022
Can't believe it? How Biden gets re-elected in 2024
Jun 09, 2022
Another reason to detest Musk
Jun 07, 2022
The Week Ahead: Why everything depends on Liz Cheney
Jun 06, 2022
Coffee klatch: Will Congress do anything about guns? U.S. weapons to Ukraine. Trump and upcoming Jan 6 hearings. Spelling bee. Coffee.
Jun 04, 2022
Personal history: When I worked for Bobby Kennedy
Jun 03, 2022
Financing gunmakers
Jun 02, 2022
Empathy and activism
May 31, 2022
Guns, abortion, and the stirrings of the slumbering giant
May 30, 2022
Coffee klatch: talking to a 9-year-old about what happened this week, the 1994 assault weapons ban, NRA convention, Trump's loss of credibility, and Bob's positive prediction for the midterms
May 28, 2022
Educating for the common good
May 26, 2022
Why unions are coming to the new economy
May 24, 2022
Bombardment by the billionaires
May 23, 2022
Coffee Klatch: CPAC in Budapest, Bezos and Musk, Doug Mastriano, a new progressive era, and my debut on the Simpsons
May 21, 2022
What you need to know about the anti-democracy movement
May 19, 2022
How Russian oligarchs, the Saudis, and China are swaying American elections
May 17, 2022
We need a hope machine. Anyone know how to build one?
May 16, 2022
Coffee klatch: Dems' message for midterms, Manchin, stock market, contraception, brain fog
May 14, 2022
Personal history: The Supreme Court I argued before fifty years ago
May 12, 2022
Psst: Wanna know the real reason Washington leaks?
May 10, 2022
Coffee klatch: Roe, law school with Clarence Thomas, arguing before the Supreme Court
May 07, 2022
The truth about America's second civil war
May 05, 2022
Shhhh: The Democrats' secret sauce for winning the midterms
May 03, 2022
Stopping the bullies
May 02, 2022
The past week, over Saturday coffee
Apr 30, 2022
How to put guardrails on Twitter, how to stop inflation without a recession, and how to win a war.
Apr 28, 2022
A conspiracy of quaking, craven cowards
Apr 26, 2022
When billionaires talk about freedom, watch your wallets
Apr 25, 2022
My Saturday coffee klatch with Heather
Apr 23, 2022
Zelensky patriotism, Putin patriotism, Trump patriotism
Apr 21, 2022
Why it must happen soon: The United States vs. Donald J. Trump
Apr 18, 2022
Musk, Twitter, Inflation, Putin, and our gift to you of a game
Apr 16, 2022
The real reason CBS News hired Mick Mulvaney (and Musk's latest escapade)
Apr 14, 2022
Inflation is out of control! Urgent memo to Biden and the Democrats!
Apr 12, 2022
Why Elon Musk has blocked me on Twitter (and now owns the joint)
Apr 11, 2022
My Saturday coffee klatsch with Heather
Apr 09, 2022
Why Republicans are obsessed with pedophilia, gender identity, gay people, and abortion
Apr 07, 2022
Office Hours: My appearance yesterday before the Senate Budget Committee
Apr 06, 2022
Why Biden's plan to tax the super rich is moving from unlikely to likely
Apr 05, 2022
How Trump will win the midterms for the Democrats
Apr 04, 2022
The secret to Amazon workers' extraordinary win
Apr 02, 2022
The pending death of the Supreme Court
Mar 31, 2022
Office Hours: How are you staying hopeful in these trying times?
Mar 30, 2022
Really? A billionaire tax? Now? Are you kidding me?
Mar 29, 2022
Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP sound so much alike?
Mar 28, 2022
Warning: The Fed is aiming a battering ram at the American economy
Mar 26, 2022
Ukraine, climate change, and the common good
Mar 24, 2022
Six months, and all because of you
Mar 22, 2022
Why Trump, Putin, Xi and other dictators make disastrous decisions
Mar 21, 2022
My coffee klatsch with Heather
Mar 19, 2022
PS: Could Putin pull America back together?
Mar 17, 2022
Office Hours: What's the Democrats' message?
Mar 16, 2022
How to stop big oil from profiteering off Putin?
Mar 15, 2022
Helplessness in the face of evil
Mar 14, 2022
Putin and Trump have convinced me I was wrong about the twenty-first century
Mar 12, 2022
The best thing for American children that nobody's talking about
Mar 10, 2022
Office Hours: War fever
Mar 09, 2022
Five ways Putin's war could (possibly) make America better
Mar 08, 2022
What's the difference between Russian and American oligarchs?
Mar 07, 2022
Four things you can do for Ukraine
Mar 05, 2022
Vladimir Putin's despicable war and Jerome Powell's bad inflation plan
Mar 03, 2022
Office Hours: What should we be prepared to sacrifice to stop Putin's aggression?
Mar 02, 2022
Who cares about Biden's first State of the Union?
Mar 01, 2022
The Putin-Trump Axis
Feb 28, 2022
In containing Putin, we must not lose sight of priorities at home
Feb 26, 2022
Eight Sobering Realities about Putin's Invasion
Feb 24, 2022
Putin's war, economic uncertainty, and socialism for the bankers
Feb 22, 2022
Why Democrats will retain control of the House and Senate next year
Feb 21, 2022
The Investor’s View - Wealth & Poverty Class 2
Feb 18, 2022
Could you possibly invent a more expensive and less effective healthcare system than what we have in the US?
Feb 17, 2022
Office Hours: What does today's rightward extremism mean for the future of American politics?
Feb 16, 2022
Want to be inspired? Watch this
Feb 15, 2022
A valentine for you
Feb 14, 2022
Personal History: Why Labor Secretary Marty Walsh should stay the hell away from baseball
Feb 12, 2022
How do employers shaft workers? Let me count the ways.
Feb 10, 2022
How can we be so publicly miserable and so privately happy?
Feb 08, 2022
The Week Ahead: The Four Horsemen of the Neoliberal Apocalypse
Feb 07, 2022
Caption contest resumes next Sunday. Today, background watching in preparation for "Wealth and Poverty" starting Friday
Feb 06, 2022
The Fed is about to shaft American workers
Feb 04, 2022
So you don't think labor unions have a future?
Feb 03, 2022
How to get teenagers to read important books
Feb 01, 2022
Midterm Watch: Why Trump and Gingrich offer the best hope for Democrats
Jan 31, 2022
Share the profits!
Jan 29, 2022
Psst: Want to know why Americans are gloomy about the "best" economy since 1984?
Jan 28, 2022
The "political center" b******t
Jan 27, 2022
The non-inflated truth about inflation
Jan 25, 2022
The Weeks Ahead: The future of voting rights and democracy
Jan 24, 2022
The curse of financial entrepreneurship
Jan 22, 2022
Psst: You really want to know why Manchin and Sinema came out against voting rights?
Jan 21, 2022
The End of Work
Jan 20, 2022
The Week Ahead: How Biden can get his mojo back
Jan 18, 2022
Mickey
Jan 17, 2022
Need a bit of a pick-me-up? Let me introduce you to two young people.
Jan 15, 2022
Why isn't corporate America behind the pro-democracy movement?
Jan 14, 2022
Quiz: Why should members of Congress be able to make money on inside information?
Jan 13, 2022
What would the Supreme Court's "originalists" think of the filibuster?
Jan 11, 2022
The Week Ahead: Georgia on my mind
Jan 10, 2022
Is there still a common good?
Jan 08, 2022
The secret to tenacity
Jan 07, 2022
A year ago today
Jan 06, 2022
Today's Office Hours discussion: Will America have a second civil war?
Jan 05, 2022
The Potterizing of America: As the child tax credit ends, big corporations (and their CEOs and investors) keep raking it in
Jan 04, 2022
The Week Ahead: The start of accountability for Trump's attempted coup?
Jan 03, 2022
The Road Ahead
Jan 01, 2022
Want to know what to do about Trump? You might start with "It's a Wonderful Life"
Dec 30, 2021
What is the real meaning of January 6?
Dec 29, 2021
How I've shared the holidays with my family thousands of miles away
Dec 28, 2021
How to overcome the tyranny of stuff
Dec 27, 2021
How to stay hopeful in a time of despair
Dec 24, 2021
You want to know a really dirty secret? Here's why Democrats are protecting private equity's "carried interest" loophole
Dec 23, 2021
Help! What will Omicron do to my holiday plans?
Dec 21, 2021
When Congress returns: Its first priority must be to save American democracy from the big lie, big anger, and big money (plus an end-note on Joe Manchin)
Dec 20, 2021
Why I love teaching (but hate teaching remotely)
Dec 17, 2021
Office Hours: Who would you select as person of the year (other than Elon Musk)?
Dec 15, 2021
Why I don't trust the mainstream media
Dec 14, 2021
How to talk to people who are 50 years younger
Dec 11, 2021
One small step for Starbucks workers, one giant leap for workers across America
Dec 10, 2021
Office Hours: What will American democracy look like in 2031?
Dec 08, 2021
The heart of a community: a small business
Dec 07, 2021
The Week Ahead: A test for the American system
Dec 06, 2021
The most important choice ahead
Dec 03, 2021
The biggest change during my 50 years in and around American politics
Dec 02, 2021
A Thanksgiving Toast
Nov 25, 2021
The Week Ahead: The big split
Nov 22, 2021
The BS you're now hearing about how the Democrats can woo back the working class
Nov 04, 2021
The Week Ahead: Power politics in Glasgow, Virginia, and Washington
Nov 01, 2021
Resilience
Oct 29, 2021
America's real moral crisis
Oct 26, 2021
The Week Ahead: Crunch time
Oct 25, 2021
What makes me optimistic about the future?
Oct 23, 2021
The two biggest challenges to our democracy
Oct 21, 2021
The Great Re-evaluation
Oct 16, 2021
Personal History: Is it possible for Democrats and Republicans in Washington to be close friends?
Oct 02, 2021
The Week Ahead: Two high-stakes games of chicken
Sep 27, 2021
Thanks for joining me
Sep 26, 2021