The Highroad

Here comes Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas! It’s a month-long season of friends and family, spiritual reflection and time to decompress from our usual helter-skelter lives, right...

While we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s socalled “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow...

Who´s the most befuddled Wall Streeter of all? The richest guy on the Street...

Headline: AT&T buys 700 copies of Perry book...

I went to law school for a week and a half, so I know that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how awful, has a right to be represented by a lawyer. But does everyone have a right to a lobbyist...

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...

If “bigger is better,” as the old saw claims, does that mean that biggest is best? Not in CorporateWorld. Chanting the bigger-is-better mantra, corporations...

Few Americans have ever heard of Tom Barrack, but he’s going to be a big, behind-the-scenes player in Trump’s Washington.        Indeed, Tom’s...

Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...

Oh them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants ...

How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his part of the taxes that make them ...

Imagine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea — namely, converting communities to total renewable energy, complete recycling, and a culture of conservation to bring humankind’s carbon footprint into a sustainable balance with a healthy earth...