Robert Reich | Elizabeth Warren Is Right - We Must Break Up Facebook, Google and Amazon

11 March 19 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE CANNOT GO FORWARD WITHOUT FUNDING: For whatever reason March’s donation stream is well below normal. We simply cannot afford a substantial cut in funding at this time. Please take a moment to consider all the good that RSN does, and our unique 100% Reader Supported News process that allows us to focus solely on issues important to our community. Take a moment of your time to help out. Thank you. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Robert Reich | Elizabeth Warren Is Right - We Must Break Up Facebook, Google and Amazon  Robert Reich, Guardian UK Reich writes: "We're now in a second Gilded Age, ushered in by semiconductors, software and the internet, which has spawned a handful of hi-tech behemoths and a new set of barons like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google." READ MORE Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a recent campaign stop. (photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Sanders Taking Tough Jabs at Trump Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post Wootson writes: "Two minutes into his stump speech in this strongly Democratic college town, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made his first of many references to President Trump, calling him 'the most dangerous president in modern American history.'" READ MORE Exterior view of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. (photo: Bill O'Leary/WP/Getty Images) Even Money Managers No Longer Want OxyContin-Tainted Sackler Cash Stephanie Griffith, ThinkProgress Griffith writes: "It would seem that money from the billionaire Sackler family is no longer in as much demand as it once was." READ MORE Chief Justice Cheri Beasley. (photo: Paul Woolverton/Fayetteville Observer) North Carolina State Supreme Court Appoints First Black Woman Chief Justice Ibn Safir, The Root Safir writes: "Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the first black woman supreme court justice to lead the state Supreme Court, was sworn in this past weekend in front of more than 1,000 people, according to the Fayetteville Observer." READ MORE 'They want cars. They want to open new restaurants. They want to throw bigger parties. And they want houses.' (photo: Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images) Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive Nellie Bowles, Medium Bowles writes: "Big wealth doesn't come in monthly paychecks. It comes when a startup goes public, transforming hypothetical money into extremely real money. This year - with Uber, Lyft, Slack, Postmates, Pinterest and Airbnb all hoping to enter the public markets - there's going to be a lot of it in the Bay Area." READ MORE Women in Spain are striking. (photo: Getty Images) Inside Spain's Radical, Union-Led Women's Strike Kim Kelly, Splinter News Kelly writes: "For two hours on March 8, 2018, they flooded the streets - students and politicians, domestic workers and business leaders, women of all stripes and identities - to call for an end to Spain's machista culture, and the toxic societal blights that come along with it: structural inequality, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and a pervasive wage gap." READ MORE Semi-automated pig barns now dominate large parts of rural Iowa. (photo: Scott Morgan/The Observer) How America's Food Giants Swallowed the Family Farms Chris McGreal, Guardian UK McGreal writes: "Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation