The Highroad
Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe?
I would trust a pack of coyotes to guard my little herd of lambs before I’d trust a pack of corporate hucksters to “reform”...
How can we stop banksters from robbing us?
In an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel/I see lots of funny men/Some’ll rob you...
Finding the money to fund higher education for all
Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions of dollars each year...
Is more technology the answer to too much technology?
We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets.
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Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly
Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...
How clueless can the GOP establishment get?
Exciting news, people! The Republican Party’s establishment has a secret plan to stop its blue-collar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is code-named:...
Obama to top executives: I feel your pain
Guess who’s whining the loudest these days, wailing that they’re getting a raw deal from Barack Obama...
A corporate split on climate change policy
"The carbon-based free lunch is over," crowed the speaker. "Breakthroughs on climate change and improving our society's energy efficiency are within reach," he declared, to the enthusiastic cheers of environmentalists...
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
Why are we taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime?
Do the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card...
Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections
It’s our civic duty to vote, right? Well that depends on who you are. The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don’t want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their ...
Let’s join the Army!
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...
