The Highroad
Big Beer deceivers and bullies
It’s bad enough that the goliaths of Big Beer are consuming each other in a new round of mega-mergers, meaning fewer choices and higher prices for consumers — but the really bad news is that they’re also going after the one bright spot on tap in bars all across the ...
Walling them out, or walling us in?
Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...
How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor?
Generals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work.
So, meet HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a quiet but bloodstained commandante in General Trump’s relentless...
NSA and DHS defend us against sinister website
It’s a scary world out there, with global terrorists plotting to kill us...
Why are Republicans so quiet about their chief economic accomplishment?
Listen... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just...
Walgreens: An unpatriotic ingrate
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 ...
Making consumer protection into corporate protection
The giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague called “consumer confusion” — and these selfless corporate entities are going all out to save you from it...
The poppy war in Afghanistan
Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom...
Corporations are playing with our food — and our heads
From kitchen tables worldwide you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the same refrain: “Stop playing with your food.”
Children...
Fast food chains stealing from low-wage workers
No matter how small the haul is, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about ...
Counter ALEC with ALICE
Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this isn’t a person, but the soulless ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive corporate front is behind hundreds of regressive ...
