The Highroad

My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...

Exciting news, people! The Republican Party’s establishment has a secret plan to stop its blue-collar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is code-named:...

The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable...

The funny thing about Wall Street banksters is that they make a killing by defrauding millions of homeowners, customers, investors and taxpayers — then, when caught, they wonder why we don’t love them...

We have a president who mistakes price for value. Thus, to measure America’s economic health, he simply checks the price of corporate stocks. And...

Could it be? Dare we think it? Is it possible that the Environmental Protection Agency might finally be getting serious about providing some protection for Appalachia's environment and people...

Goldman Sachs is making news again, though it’s doing its damnedest to keep it quiet and to suppress any outbreak of political outrage from either the public or Washington...

Perhaps you’ve been wondering...

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal last year, and in short order he has turned it into a tongue-clucking sympathizer with and proselytizer for the biggest of big businesses — not only on its editorial pages, but also in its news stories...

I love groups with the gumption to take on big tasks and do what needs to be done — can-do groups that can, and do. But, uh-oh, here comes The Little Choo-Choo That Couldn’t: the U.S. Congress...

Who says we’re not making progress in battling the senseless greed of corporate profiteers? Look at the big change won earlier this year when the labels on Johnson’s Baby Shampoo announced: “Improved Formula...

Even Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous...