The Highroad
The Bernie Sanders revolution is just getting started
The Bernie for President campaign is over, but the political revolution that he launched against corporate rule is just beginning.
Sanders and...
How magical is The Donald?
Donald Trump, the Amazing Wunderkind of Global Luxury Living — and now Our Nation’s Phantasmagoric, Fast-charging President — is proving to be a legislative...
Scott Walker, Home Depot, Donnie Trump and the Supreme Court
In a mind-boggling trick, some magicians levitate themselves. But remember, the key word in “magic trick” — is trick.
Scott Walker, for example, is quite...
Where is AI driving us?
With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...
How magical is The Donald?
Donald Trump, the amazing wunderkind of global luxury living — and now our nation’s phantasmagoric, fast-charging president — is proving to be a legislative...
Parsing the PR lies of Goldman Sachs
CorporateSpeak is an inane language that conveys seriousness without any sincerity.
Consider this example from Goldman Sachs: “We are pleased to put these legacy matters...
U.S. General salutes a military “hero”
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a particular military hero he wants to honor...
Watering America’s food factories
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...
The New American Aristocracy
Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...
Trump tries to put his brand on GOP
Oh, joy! Oh, goody! Oh, happy day! If you love the loopy side of American politics, your dream of some serious loco for 2016 has arrived: Donnie Trump is in the race! For president. Of the United States. No, really...
Economists find creative solution to US unemployment
Excellent news, people. Let me put it to you as a number: 8.7 million...
Tax Dodgers Incorporated
Fats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On...