The Highroad
What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common?
Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in banks to capture images...
The twisted ethics of trade secrets
It`s time to enjoy another round of that sensational game show that’s so popular from coast to coast: “Twisted Ethics!” Today’s ethical conundrum involves chemical compounds marketed as everything from household cleaners to flame retardant fabrics. The question comes...
Rick Perry’s ‘truthiness’
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...
Hiding worker injuries from OSHA
It's painful enough to be injured on the job, but it adds insult to injury when your employer strives to keep your pain a secret from safety authorities...
FEC hacks kill another ethics reform
The Federal Election Commission might as well be re-named the Federal Execution Commission, for it repeatedly and ruthlessly takes election reforms down a dark hallway in its building and executes them...
Aetna lifts the national standard for ‘competitive wages’
Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...
Should we entrust our school children to corporate profiteers?
Betsy DeVos and her hubby, Dick, are lucky enough to have inherited a big chunk of the multibillion-dollar fortune that Daddy DeVos amassed through...
The legalized immorality of Big Pharma
Al Capone, the infamous mob boss and bootlegger in Chicagoland during the 1920s, always maintained that he was just a businessman, saying the only difference between him and others was that the law criminalized his business, while legalizing the criminality of ...
General Trump’s Twitter bombs
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...
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...
What does it mean to ‘gig’ American workers?
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...
Cargill’s GMO hypocrisy
I don’t think so, but Cargill Inc. is doing its damndest to get away with its version of the old admonition that eating your cake today means not having it tomorrow. Cargill, the $2.3 billion-a-year food conglomerate, is a huge producer and user of food ingredients ...
