The Highroad

Adios, Amazon

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Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...

Let’s cheer for NFL cheerleaders

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Give me an “N” — Nnnnnn...

A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas

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If you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-right-wing outfit called ALEC — the...

U.S. General salutes a military “hero”

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a particular military hero he wants to honor...

Wall Street plowboys

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I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Pintail Vineyard, Roadrunner Ranch, and Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old...

Trump tries to put his brand on GOP

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Oh, joy! Oh, goody! Oh, happy day! If you love the loopy side of American politics, your dream of some serious loco for 2016 has arrived: Donnie Trump is in the race! For president. Of the United States. No, really...

Adios, Amazon

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Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...

Front porch politics

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If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump...

Should churches become unholy temples of dark money?

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You know what’s wrong with American politics? It’s that there just aren’t enough ways for giant corporations and mega-rich political donors to funnel their...

Keeping score on Exxon

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Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...

What’s in Trump’s food-box?

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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...

Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing

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Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day...