Trump and Harris are neck-and-neck. This is a five-alarm fire | Robert Reich

No Americans who care about the future of this country can afford to remain a mere spectator to our own democracy

With two weeks to go before election day, Kamala Harris and Donald J Trump are essentially tied.

Neither candidate is ahead by even a single point in the New York Times's polling average of five critical battleground states - Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com