The Highroad
Our war president
What did you do in the war, Daddy?
“I was on the front lines, stringing bands of concertina wire along the border.”
Concertina? Were you in...
A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas
If you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-right-wing outfit called ALEC — the...
Putting the Trump stamp on the public
This spring, President Trump created an inter-agency federal task force to propose structural reforms in the U.S. Postal Service. In only two months, the...
Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers
A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his...
Have you heard the news? Poverty is over!
Someone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least...
Avoid Amazon’s ‘Cyber Monday’ and buy local
It’s “Cyber Monday” — get out there and buy stuff!
But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this gimmicky shop-shop-shop day lures us...
Tracking Trump’s convoluted immigration policy
Racially and ethnically speaking, I’m truly a global human — Irish, Black, Anglo, Native American, Italian... all that and more. My father always said...
Spookinomics
Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked... and spooky.
Check out a 72-page “spookinomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic...
Front porch politics
If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump...
Empowering the people
Is it possible to get public policies out of our political system that benefit common people rather than moneyed elites?
Yes! We the people can...
What if we made voting fun?
The shameful truth about America’s democratic process is that it’s become so un-democratic that they don’t want you to vote.
By “they” I mean...
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...
