The Highroad
The shame of climate-change deniers
Shame is that queasy feeling you get when you realize you’ve done something improper, ridiculous... or just flat-out contemptible. But it’s socially invaluable, for...
Real news, fake news and BS news
How can journalism help people make sense of our turbulent world if it can’t make sense of itself?
In addition to “news” (which involves reporting...
Cowboys for Liberty
What’s in a name? By definition, the name of a person, place or thing is its personal designation... a distinct way of being known...
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...
Donald Drumpf is deranged
This year’s freakish presidential election has now devolved into an ethnic brouhaha between two foreigners: A Mexican and a German.
The “Mexican”...
Trump versus the wisdom of Robert E. Lee
While our present president’s moral character seems stuck somewhere between boorish and brutish, it’s only fair to note that he also has an aesthetic...
Scott Walker, Home Depot, Donnie Trump and the Supreme Court
In a mind-boggling trick, some magicians levitate themselves. But remember, the key word in “magic trick” — is trick.
Scott Walker, for example, is quite...
Monsanto vs. Mother Nature: Guess who’s winning?
If you fool with Mother Nature, she’ll most likely fool with you — usually in very unpleasant ways...
Would you trust John Yoo?
Noting that the U.S. military was developing armed, autonomous robots to serve as battleground soldiers in our wars, a 2015 New York Times article...
Thieves in the suites
Workplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution. But rather than using whips to make the assembly lines move ever-faster, today’s...
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...
Media monopoly… or democracy?
Monopolies are not merely un-American, they’re virulently anti-American, suppressing our fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all.
So, our people have instinctively rebelled at...
