The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For
Sometimes, a villain can be more energizing than a leader to a movement.
Nov 17, 2011 / Robert Scheer
California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout
There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, who usually get off with a fine and a promise not to do it again, and again and again.
Nov 10, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Too Big to Jail Too Big to Jail
Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money? So why isn't former Citigroup Chairman Robert Rubin breaking a sweat?
Nov 3, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare
Those three decades of rampant upper-crust greed unleashed by the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s will be well marked by future historians recording the death of the American dream.
Oct 27, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Let Them Eat Bill Keller Let Them Eat Bill Keller
Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But former New York Times Executive Editor Keller displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
Oct 20, 2011 / Robert Scheer
If a Republican Were President If a Republican Were President
Obama has failed not because he is a progressive in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt but because he is not.
Oct 13, 2011 / Robert Scheer
What Do They Want? Justice What Do They Want? Justice
How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country?
Oct 6, 2011 / Robert Scheer
The Men We Trusted to Lead Us The Men We Trusted to Lead Us
By pointing those who are the culprits of "the crime of the century," President Obama betrayed his promise of hope.
Sep 29, 2011 / Robert Scheer
On Troy Davis: Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice On Troy Davis: Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice
In my own experience as a journalist covering this issue, the vast majority of politicians who defend capital punishment do so out of rank opportunism.
Sep 22, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Obama’s Economy: One Betrayal Too Many Obama’s Economy: One Betrayal Too Many
With a record 46.2 million Americans living in poverty, it’s getting too late to give President Obama a pass on the economy.
Sep 15, 2011 / Robert Scheer