The Highroad
Why would you let Jeff Bezos inside your home?
Would you give your house key to a complete stranger, letting that person (whose name you don’t even know) walk right into your home...
Buy local beer, books… and why not seafood?
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this is not a human disease, nor has it struck America — but it affects us anyway. EMS is a new bacterial outbreak that’s been ...
State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor
Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...
The Karzai-ization of Afghanistan
Isn't it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We’re standing side-by-side with some of the most notable, incredible and astonishing democratic leaders on the globe today. Specifically, of course, I’m ...
What’s in Trump’s food-box?
Even Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous...
A new home for poverty in America
It’s been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda — and it’s time to move it up again...
Bankers keep running with illegal foreclosures
Two-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down crying, but they learn from it...
Look out — the yummies are coming!
Attention, men. Yes, you —you with the Y chromosomes—it’s time for some man-talk. Specifically, we need to address how you dress...
North Carolina’s Kafkaesque war on the unemployed
Something profoundly awful has seeped into the top strata of American society: Our nation’s corporate and political elites have developed an immunity to shame...
Help cure Sallie Mae’s sugar addiction
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...
Let’s adopt the GOP’s national platform
Well, I didn’t expect this!
The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be more than a...
Smedley Darlington Butler and why he’s important
Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history, but consider the “Wall Street Putsch” of 1933.
Never heard of...
