The Highroad

Do you — or anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order to do your job ethically...

When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate election in 1966, he said: “The people have spoken. The bastards.”     ...

You would think that leading conservatives in our country would be, you know … conservative. As in being very opposed to letting government authorities intrude into people’s privacy and personal liberties...

Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...

  America is under assault...

In June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their...

My father was an early member of a group now known disparagingly as “ultra-lawn people...

While we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s socalled “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow...

Fats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On...

Donnie Trump — what a maverick! What a shake-’em-up outsider! What an anti-establishment fighter for working stiffs! Oh, and don’t forget this: What a phony! The...

Question: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos. She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education...

Sometimes we forget that the progressive movement’s political goal is not just to elect “good” officials, but to enact good public policy. From my...