The Highroad

America’s economic recovery can be measured not only in the performance of stocks — but also of socks...

Have you noticed that The Powers That Be employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job market than they use for the stock market...

If  your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime of work would be $2.4 million. Not bad — but hedge-fund hustler John Paulson pulled down that much last year...

In California, a surprising new union movement is growing like a weed, having taken root in a burgeoning economic sector that has enormous potential: marijuana...

Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...

Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies...

boulderweekly.com/highroad An odd brotherhood is joining the populist push to rein in the narcissistic greed of Wall Street giants: Wall Streeters themselves! There’s John Bogle, the 80-yearold founder of Vanguard Group: “I am a believer that the system has gone ...

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...

Inequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few...

Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity...

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So...

A proper wall, we’re told, makes good neighbors, but an 18-foot-high, 2000-mile-long wall goes way beyond proper, antagonizes your neighbor and shows your own...