The Highroad

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...

"The carbon-based free lunch is over," crowed the speaker. "Breakthroughs on climate change and improving our society's energy efficiency are within reach," he declared, to the enthusiastic cheers of environmentalists...

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...

Doggonit, Donnie Trump missed his opportunity to become a General Patton-style military commander and glorious war hero back in the Vietnam era. He surely...

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert points out that political statements and even political facts these days don’t have to be true — all they need, Colbert insists, is some element of “truthiness...

Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress? Regular folks in our country say...

Do you — or anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order to do your job ethically...

Imagine a headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill...

Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...

National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...

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...