The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Friends,
Three days before the beginning of the end of Trump and all he stands for — let us hope and pray — Heather and I take a close look at what the midterm elections hold, what Trump is doing (and trying to do) to undermine them, what Elon Musk is doing (and trying to do) to poison them, and what we all must do in the days ahead.
So please pull up a chair, grab a cuppa, and join in the conversation.
RR
PS: On Wednesday, the day after the midterms, please join Heather and me for a live Coffee Klatch Special at 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET, where we’ll unpack the election results. I’ll send out the link here on Substack that day.
And please join us for a free one-night-only “live watchalong” of our new film, the The Work in Progress, on Tuesday, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. by signing up here.
Happy Halloween



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My good friend Anand Giridharadas is out with a wonderful new book, Man in the Mirror, and today I had an opportunity to talk with him about it. One of the things I enjoy most about talking with Anand is how his mind works. He always sees the larger points that surround and give meaning to what’s happening around us. He’s both a journalist and a thinker, a writer and a public philosopher. In Man in the Mirror, Anand recounts a murder in the New York subway — a story that was treated in the media as a passing tragedy — but under Anand’s gaze turns into an extraordinarily insightful look into America today. Please watch our conversation.


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Friends,
Ten days away from the midterms, the two most vile people in the United States (in the world?) — Elon Musk and Donald Trump — are plotting how to take over the elections. Musk is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican races and Trump is using the Justice Department to try to decertify Democratic wins even before they occur.
But as Heather and I explain, they won’t succeed.
Please pull up a chair, grab a cuppa, and join in the conversation.




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Friends,
Today, with just over two weeks to go until the midterm elections, Michael, Kamau, and I take stock of where we are: Trump is acting weirder than ever (which is saying something), his polls are lower than ever, inflation is higher than it’s been in years, his war in Iran is getting even worse and his cozying up to Putin even more bizarre.
So please grab a cuppa, pull up a chair, and join the conversation.
Robert Reich



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Friends,
Today, Heather and I are joined by our colleague Vishal Shankar to review where the midterm elections now stand and the issues emerging from them. We take a deep dive into what Trump is doing to save — or, in reality, hurt — Republican Senate and House candidates, and what a Democratic Congress (if we get one) might realistically do.
Please pull up a chair, grab a cuppa, and join the conversation.
RR
P.S. Heather and I will be at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14 for a screening of The Work in Progress film followed by a Q&A. Please join us and invite your friends! Tickets ($5 for students) here.



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