The Highroad
Tea party Congress: ‘Power to the Corporations’
Good grief — the genuine populist fury of grassroots tea partiers is now being perverted into anti-populism by the very Tea Party Republicans they elected to Congress...
Presidential candidates talk inequality (sort of)
At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...
What’s behind this photo of corporate groundbreaking?
A newspaper photograph last June portrayed three guys in suits and ties shoveling dirt. They were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and the chairman...
It’s greed that fuels this CEO’s ‘grit’
Heather Bresch regards herself as a self-made corporate success story — a woman who came out of hard-scrabble West Virginia and scrambled to the...
Aetna lifts the national standard for ‘competitive wages’
Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...
Banksters: A story of crime and punishment
Big story from that razzle-dazzle place called “El Casino Grande” — otherwise known as Wall Street...
How bad public policy happens
If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence —...
How can we stop banksters from robbing us?
In an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel/I see lots of funny men/Some’ll rob you...
Boeing’s ‘virtual fence’ comes a cropper
It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic “virtual fence” be built to detect “bad guys” trekking into our country. Of course, like all things Bush, he ...
The real scandal in Denny Hastert’s life
Washington’s gossip mill is spinning furiously over the recent revelations about Dennis Hastert’s long hidden sexual molestation scandal. But what about the filthy, backroom affair he’s been openly conducting with corporate lobbyists for nearly two decades...
Are the rich different from you and me? Ask Cadillac!
You know what our country needs right now? I think we need something that can bring us together again, something that can heal the...
Credit-rating finaglers freed by meek Congress
America has the wrong approach for dealing with thieves. Rather than “looking backwards” at their misdeeds and “punishing” them, we merely need to ask that they not misbehave in the future, then monitor their behavior...
