The Highroad
Spreading weapons in the name of peace
Hey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others...
Living wage preemption act
The governors of many states are boldly stepping forward these days to stop grassroots democracy.
Yes, noting that local citizens and officials have been passing...
Reclaim Chicago challenges ‘Mayor 1-Percent’
The people of Chicago are presently grappling with a big question that nearly every urban place faces: Can anyone really govern such a sprawling, brawling city...
Battling the forces of inequality
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...
Here’s my plan to stop airlines from gouging us
In one of Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine comic strips, his character, “Rat,” develops a smart phone app that I want. As Rat explains...
Using hokey numbers and neon lies to sell TPP
Come one, come all! Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, supersonic, miraculous, “Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Delivering the news to the ‘New York Times’
Before major news organizations pronounce someone dead, they ought to check the person’s pulse.
Take, for example, a recent New York Times screed prematurely pronouncing...
Corporate flimflammers suckering Congress, again
If you google Google, you might learn that this Internet powerhouse once proudly promised to do no evil...
A new home for poverty in America
It’s been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda — and it’s time to move it up again...
Does everyone deserve a lobbyist?
I went to law school for a week and a half, so I know that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how awful, has a right to be represented by a lawyer. But does everyone have a right to a lobbyist...
Help save America’s public post offices
The U.S. postal system has 30,000 outlets serving every part of America. It employs 630,000 people in good middle-class jobs, and it proudly delivers...
How to make childbirth more painful
Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...
