By Dan Rather and Team Steady After torching CBS News, David Ellison wants us to believe he won’t do the same to CNN Trust is earned, not given. The billionaire owner of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison, would do well to…

Apparently, American citizenship is now the ultimate luxury purchase: fly in, give birth, collect the passport, and pretend nobody should question the receipt. Thomas Jefferson supposedly advised that when you’re angry, count to ten before you speak. If you’re really…

After years of commanding unquestioned authority, Anthony Fauci confronts the legal consequences of executive protection, congressional oversight, and the constitutional limits of presidential pardons I have spent enough time watching Washington operate to know that power has a funny way…

When leaders excuse division instead of confronting hatred, violence follows, accountability disappears, and ordinary New Yorkers are left paying the price for reckless ideological extremism. I have never been someone who plays the Jewish card. Anyone who knows me knows…

Washington's latest confirmation drama masks a far deeper battle over weaponized justice, political restitution, constitutional power, and who ultimately pays when government destroys lives. The political circus unfolding on Capitol Hill is as predictable as it is absurd. I know…

No political opponent could inflict the damage Democrats are inflicting upon themselves, abandoning pragmatism for extremism while pushing millions of voters toward Republicans. I’ve been watching this train wreck coming for years. Long before it became fashionable to admit there…

Prediction markets, political extremism, and the battle for America's future collide as I confront George Santos and Hank Sheinkopf with the questions nobody else dares ask. Today at 5:00 p.m. on my 77WABC radio show, “When You Know…You Know”, the…

Democrats had every political advantage imaginable, yet by surrendering their party to ideological extremes, they're handing Republicans the greatest midterm comeback opportunity in decades. I’m not shy about where I stand. Never have been. Since I started writing on Substack…

BY DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY Credit: Getty Images Before the words “Project 2025” and the “Big Ugly Bill” entered the conversation, life wasn’t perfect, but we could get through a day without worrying about the next disaster the man…

BY DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY Credit: Getty Images July 20, 1969, was a momentous day for our nation and the world. Fifty-seven years ago this week, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong accomplished the extraordinary; they landed on the moon.…

BY DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY Caption: A rare photo of the war with Iran, showing the aftermath of an Iranian strike on a U.S. installation inside an air base in Jordan. Credit: MenchOsint on Never have so many of…

The man America trusted during its darkest hour now faces questions about private doubts, public declarations, unanswered mysteries, and the staggering price of misplaced trust. I am not a doctor. I am not an epidemiologist. I am not a virologist…

Mayor Mamdani’s crusade against property owners exposes a dangerous cycle: attack investment, destroy growth, and force everyday New Yorkers to pay the price. If you are sitting in your apartment right now convincing yourself that the latest financial ambush coming…

The DNC reaches a defining crossroads as leadership failures, financial pressures, and internal divisions collide, forcing urgent questions about the party’s future before the midterms. For more than a year, you’ve heard me talk on this platform and others about…

The collapse of great cities rarely begins with catastrophe; it begins when ideology replaces judgment and leadership becomes an accelerant for hatred and division. There is a radical Islamist ideologue sitting in New York City Hall. People have reached for…

Raised by a Holocaust survivor, I recognize the warning signs of hatred’s return—and the terrifying cost when communities dismiss the patterns history has already revealed. There are some things nobody can teach you. Not in a classroom. Not from behind…

The Democratic Party is experiencing a historic identity crisis as emerging movements challenge its traditions, reshape its priorities, and redefine its political future. Every morning begins the same way. Coffee in one hand. Phone in the other. Television talking in…

The Left's digital lynch mob convicts first, investigates never, weaponizing lies, destroying reputations, and sacrificing truth while real victims wait endlessly for actual justice. The internet loves nothing more than a conspiracy. It doesn’t matter whether there’s evidence, facts, or…

I was called everything but right, then facts walked in, exposed election failures, humbled Mamdani’s fantasy, and ruined another week of political nonsense. There is something deeply satisfying about watching people spend days calling you every name in the book,…

By Robert Reich And how to disempower the oligarchy Friends, This is a continuation of the discussion I began last Friday. The Incredible Shrinking American Middle Class A half-century ago, America had the largest middle class in the history of…

By Robert Reich The media must name names Friends, The New York Times says the “Justice Department struggles” with Trump’s demands that it prosecute his enemies. But who exactly is struggling? Career lawyers whose professional ethics are being compromised? Trump-loyalist…

By Robert Reich Friends, For a year and a half, we’ve been subject to the daily onslaught of Trump and his cruel, corrupt, and incompetent second regime. My question to you now, in the middle of the summer of our…

By Robert Reich It goes far beyond guns vs. butter Friends, I used to think the major tradeoff was between “guns and butter” — between defending the nation and attending to our most pressing social needs. That view put the…

By Robert Reich It should cling to any candidate he's supporting Friends, Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Musk’s…

By Robert Reich From Texas to North Carolina Friends, This morning, while standing in line at a local deli, I met an older couple named Larry and Wendy. They are from Galveston, Texas, and are briefly in northern California visiting…

By Robert Reich Part 1: Dimon and the enshittification of everything Friends, I’m devoting the next several Fridays to what I’m calling a “Realist’s Guide to the American System.” If you hadn’t noticed, almost everything’s going to hell. Why? Trump…

By Robert Reich The truth about Trump's war, Trump's tariffs, and Trumponomics Friends, As Trump’s tariffs and his war with Iran drive up prices of everything from oil to steel, you’d think big American corporations would be screaming bloody hell.…

By Robert Reich Beyond gerrymandering, restricting mail-in voting, and requiring voter IDs Friends, With just 97 days until the midterm elections of 2026, Democrats are fired up, while Republicans are in the doldrums. That means Democrats have a good chance…

By Robert Reich And my answer Friends, It happened to me twice today. A stranger came up and asked: “How do you stay sane?” (or some variation on the same question, such as “How do you keep your head from…

By Robert Reich And the gusher of it is just beginning Friends, I want to start today with a warning about “charitable giving” and end with a primer on wealth inequality. The two are closely related, as I’ll explain. We’re…

By Robert Reich Friends, We have been subject to the sociopath for a year and a half — 18 months of the most loathsome, least competent, and most corrupt person ever to be president of the United States. We’ve watched…

By Robert Reich The biggest employers in America are paying their employees shite and treating their CEOs as royalty. Friends, A new Government Accountability Office study, released Wednesday, found that MacDonalds, Walmart, and Amazon — three of America’s largest employers,…

By Robert Reich It has nothing to do with national security Friends, The White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner will be held tonight (after being cut short in April by a gunman). Once again, Trump will be on the dais,…

By Robert Reich I hope I'm being unnecessarily alarmist Friends, This daily letter to you doesn’t offer financial advice. And most of you have been so worried by the nation’s lurch toward dictatorship under loathsome Trump that it seems almost…

By Robert Reich And some good news Friends, Starting August 1, Trump Media and Technology Group will launch a new data feed aimed at high-frequency trading firms whose profits are made by making trades a fraction of a second faster…

By Robert Reich What can we say? Friends, Trump on Monday signed orders to impose a 50 percent tariff on a wide range of Canadian imports. The White House claims the tariffs are a “punishment” for Canadian discrimination against American…