The Highroad

Never have so few done so little for so many. But at last, they’re gone — Congress has adjourned for the year...

Often, when world powers pick fights with seemingly powerless countries, they learn that even small dogs have sharp teeth — as President Trump is...

My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this is not a human disease, nor has it struck America — but it affects us anyway. EMS is a new bacterial outbreak that’s been ...

When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world peace” and “more kindness...

Wall Streeters are all atwitter about the comeuppance of Jamie Dimon, the haughty CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Last year, poor Jamie presided over a $6 billion loss by the bank’s chief investment office, so he’s now had his own pay cut in half, knocking him down to $11.5 ...

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

Donald Trump bragged in 2016 that, “I know words — I have the best words.” Well, occasionally he does use some very fine words...

For some bizarre reason, Obama is staking his presidential legacy on a trade scam called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s a corporate wet dream that would let profiteering giants in Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and eight other Pacific nations sue to overturn our ...

If you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door— just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year...

Good news, folks — our new president says he’s planning a “tax holiday” for you! Well... not directly for you. Trump’s trillion-dollar whopper of...

Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...