The Highroad

Burger King, the fast food giant, bills itself as “Home of the Whopper,” a name intended to convey to burger eaters that this one is jumbo, chockfull and a whale of a deal. But “whopper” also means a prevarication, a crock, flim flam, a tall tale — ie, hogwash...

Attention class: Today’s word is “fractal inequality...

Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...

As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...

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

Food fight, everyone — let’s all join the fun...

I like the word “lift.” It implies upward progress and a can-do communal spirit: Yes, let´s all put our backs into it, and lift this load. It´s so American...

Even if a White House report is just a pack of lies, it still can reveal some awful truths. Take the recent forecast by the...

In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they...

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...

Today’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s innovation geniuses. But, innovation for what purpose? After all,...

The self-described “Geniuses of Wall Street” are being stupid. Again. In 2007, their stupid schemes and frauds crashed our economy, destroying middle-class jobs, wealth and...