The Highroad
Searching for integrity in Trumplandia
Bring those jobs back home, Donald Trump bellowed to those greedheaded corporate executives who’ve hauled our middle-class jobs out of country, or I’ll slap...
Time for Democratic Party leaders to get going — or go
Good news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine and are beginning to act like... well, like Democrats!
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What’s killing America’s middle class?
As the royal triumvirate of Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell continue their perverse quest to turn our America into a gold-plated Trumplandistan...
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...
Are job incentive programs good for communities?
Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy, because...
The meek reality behind Trump’s pose as a Bull Moose Populist
It’s been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares?
What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining...
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...
Why are we giving corporate welfare to Amazon?
Isn’t it funny that right-wing politicians across the country piously rant against giving a few bucks worth of jobless benefits to the needy, then...
U.S. Postal Service selling out workers and… America
You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what...
Adios, Amazon
Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...
How corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America
The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers who want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is that they...
Ultra-big houses for ultra-big egos
The uber-rich like to collect trophies as proof of their unsurpassed uberness...
