The Highroad
How (and why) to keep the Postal Service public
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee! But... pssssst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
Four questions for the former boss of the Wells Fargo Gang
Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up.
The sorry saga of...
Fast food chains stealing from low-wage workers
No matter how small the haul is, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about ...
Why are Republicans so quiet about their chief economic accomplishment?
Listen... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just...
How much does it cost to buy a public university’s integrity?
First came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the “Antonin Scalia School Of Law.” Yes,...
Who’s drafting Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ deal; and who’s not?
Like rose blossoms, a politician’s promises can be beautiful when they burst into full, glorious bloom — only to see them fade over time...
Here’s my plan to stop airlines from gouging us
In one of Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine comic strips, his character, “Rat,” develops a smart phone app that I want. As Rat explains...
How Budweiser locks out free enterprise competitors
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...
Trump serves the people — rich ones, that is
Donald Trump bragged in 2016 that, “I know words — I have the best words.”
Well, occasionally he does use some very fine words...
Wall Street plowboys
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...
Hard times (still) in the fields
Every decade or so, America’s mass media are surprised to discover that migrant farmworkers are still being miserably paid and despicably treated by the...
Corporate hoggishness run amuck
They´re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington — like hogs at the trough — demanding to be fed another tax boondoggle...
