Robert Scheer

Contributing Editor

Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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 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 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

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