The Highroad

Comandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman! That’s the image our current commander-in-chief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened...

Hey, stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big, money-grubbing banks! Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their greed. And, yes,...

If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence —...

Just for the hell of it, let’s re-imagine Walmart...

A corporate lobbyist recently admitted to the New York Times: “Everybody is embarrassed about it. Although not so embarrassed that they don’t do it...

Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy, because...

Sallie Mae is not one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is filled with sugar, but it comes from you and me, thanks to a longtime sweetheart deal she has from the federal government...

Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...

Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC is the acronym for a secretive, corporate-funded, state policy front group: American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC’s “exchange” is very straightforward — it ...

Want good quality, lower-cost health care for your family — and (what the hell, let’s think big here) for every man, woman and (especially)...

If you fool with Mother Nature, she’ll most likely fool with you — usually in very unpleasant ways...

One of the lucky things about being rich is that you automatically become handsome, your jokes are hilarious and politicians treat you with fawning...