The Highroad
What if antibiotics no longer work?
Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes...
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...
Fighting the superbugs of agribusiness
Not so long ago, the “miracle cure” of antibiotics prompted doctors to prescribe them for illnesses as minor as colds and upset tummies. But, then, people began to die. In droves. Why? Overuse of antibiotics led to the rapid evolution of savvy bacteria resistant ...
Is it a crime to make Made-In-America products in China?
What’s the matter with Donald and The Trumpateers? Why won’t they stand up for the American workers and business owners who make their products...
A little less corporate political corruption
Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...
Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing
Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day!” But first, to help you absorb the big one, here’s a preliminary statistic for you:...
Hiding worker injuries from OSHA
It's painful enough to be injured on the job, but it adds insult to injury when your employer strives to keep your pain a secret from safety authorities...
Hotel giants trying to peddle plastic
As everyone who travels a lot soon learns, when you stay in the hotels of the big chains, it’s easy to forget where you are, since they’re all alike, offering all the charm of Noplace, USA...
‘We the People,’ not ‘We the Corporations’
In response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that “big money has plucked our eagle...
Wall Street’s ‘Mom & Pop’ bankers
Don´t cry for Jamie Dimon, America. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall ...
Is nothing sacred to frackers?
Such energy powers as BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton and Koch Industries have gone crackers over fracking...
