The Highroad

If you want to know how the economy is doing, don’t bother checking the Dow Jones Average or tracking the unemployment numbers...

Perhaps you thought that, surely, partisan posturing by far-right congress critters couldn’t get any nuttier. But now comes the GOP’s claim that all the talk about impeaching President Barack Obama is being led by — guess who? — Barack Obama...

Let me tell you a corporate morality tale that I call: “The Shame of Shamu...

Mark Twain spoke for me when he said: “I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position...

boulderweekly.com/highroad Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t have enough power over our government. If so, let me soothe your fevered brow with a report ...

Let us now assess the state of the free press in this land of ... well, of press freedom. The assessment? Pathetic. Not because of some government clampdown, but because of increasing press pusillanimity...

Thanks to the industrializers of American agriculture, we finally know why the chicken crossed the road: To run away from the factory farm...

Environmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced, since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of climate change activists called 350 ...

In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires...

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You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...

Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...