The Highroad

For more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit...

The word “free” in “free enterprise” is not an adjective, it’s a verb — as in, let’s “free up” the enterprise of small businesspeople who’re locked out of the marketplace by monopoly power...

Billboards must to be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages at us — and...

Want good quality, lower-cost health care for your family — and (what the hell, let’s think big here) for every man, woman and (especially)...

I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Pintail Vineyard, Roadrunner Ranch, and Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old...

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this is not a human disease, nor has it struck America — but it affects us anyway. EMS is a new bacterial outbreak that’s been ...

What if progressive organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned Congress — all at once? Yes, one sweeping...

Have you had your minimum daily requirement of “nanos” today...

Donald Trump bragged in 2016 that, “I know words — I have the best words.” Well, occasionally he does use some very fine words...

As Donald Trump said: “Strange things happen in life.” Yes — like him! Take that strange bromance he’s got going with his presidential counterpart,...

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.”  ...