The Highroad

In its Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court upended our democratic elections by decreeing that corporations and über-wealthy individuals can dump unlimited sums of cash into campaigns to elect their favored candidates. Astonishingly, Justice Anthony Kennedy ...

When corporate lobbyists and the Congress critters they control attack efforts to raise the minimum wage to at least a bare level of human decency, they always try to cast the issue as an intolerable squeeze on struggling mom & pop stores. But wait what are those ...

No doubt you will be thrilled to learn that we now live and work in a “gig economy.” That’s the latest corporate buzz-phrase from Silicon...

The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist groups like Public Citizen, unions like the Communications Workers, and… well, with the majority of us Americans who oppose the establishment’s ...

My father was an early member of a group now known disparagingly as “ultra-lawn people...

What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...

Words can be discombobulating when people twist them to fit concepts that are the exact opposite of what the word actually means...

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...

By gollies, The Donald delivers! Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to create millions of American jobs....

An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse...

What if a political party’s platform actually stood for workaday people, rather than being a catalogue of far-out, right-wing nuttiness, or a batch of...

President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...