The Highroad

A citizen’s willingness to speak truth to power is essential for the well-being of a democracy. Equally essential, though, are citizens willing to risk their personal well-being by standing up to speak truth about power...

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)...

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

Hey, stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big, money-grubbing banks! Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their greed. And, yes,...

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...

Water scarcity is getting scary, and banning long showers is not even a drop in the solution bucket. The biggest water sponge by far is...

It’s said that there’s nothing more vicious than a wild animal that’s cornered, but I’d add that there’s nothing more devious than a top...

Who are we? Are we the America of courage, openness, inclusion, opportunity and democratic promise — as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the...

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...

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

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...

If you’ve ever been to any of the cities graced with a Trump hotel, casino, resort, etc., you know that The Donald splashes his...