The Highroad
Gouging consumers with high-flying fees
Why do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies...
How to lift up America’s middle class
Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...
Trump to working class: Adios, chumps
We have a president who mistakes price for value. Thus, to measure America’s economic health, he simply checks the price of corporate stocks. And...
Takeaways from the election
When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate election in 1966, he said: “The people have spoken. The bastards.” ...
The ‘Beckinization’ of the far right
Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn’t get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn’t factored in Glenn Beck...
Congressional looters
Beware — laissez-faire ideological loonies are loose in Washington! They’re waving machetes, toting sledgehammers, and going right for your Social Security...
Corporate hoggishness run amuck
They´re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington — like hogs at the trough — demanding to be fed another tax boondoggle...
Far from liberalizing global policies, TPP is corporatizing them
Words can be discombobulating when people twist them to fit concepts that are the exact opposite of what the word actually means...
Brand New Congress
What if progressive organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned Congress — all at once?
Yes, one sweeping...
What is the ‘Trump Fix’
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...
Where is AI driving us?
With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...
Should churches become unholy temples of dark money?
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...
