The Highroad
The fountainpen economy
Even the word “greed” is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today’s corporate elite...
Does Obama even know what’s in his TPP deal?
Last spring, President Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the gleaming Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public...
Coca-Cola’s corrosive corporate ethos
If your car’s battery terminals are corroded, just open a can of Coca- Cola. Coke will dissolve corrosion, making your battery connections spiffy clean in a jiffy...
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...
How hedge fund billionaires literally ‘check’ the people’s will
Donnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton...
Ultra-big houses for ultra-big egos
The uber-rich like to collect trophies as proof of their unsurpassed uberness...
Guess who’s pushing for prison reform?
Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass imprisonment policies...
Presidential candidates talk inequality (sort of)
At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...
Big political donors buying elections… and public policies
Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...
Battling the forces of inequality
Inequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few...
Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing
Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day...
