The Highroad
Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War?’
President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands and...
Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War’?
President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...
Another Koch-funded stealth campaign
Millions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a nice above-board civic group promoting such salt-of-the-earth virtues as integrity and veracity, but quite the opposite...
Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy
A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney...
Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?
Besides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common? Answer: Hemp...
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
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...
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates
National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...
Newt Gingrich: the spawn of ‘Citizens United’
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 ...
Why we should reach across borders, not close them
A nation’s border is nothing in and of itself. It’s just an inanimate line that has no philosophy, personality, feelings or meaning — beyond what...
The real Halloween scaries of 2014
If you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door— just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year...
The Koch brothers’ black liquor moonshine
Question: If you mix a cocktail of “black liquor,” biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies — then have it shaken vigorously by Sen. Mike Crapo and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists — what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers Moonshine...
