The Highroad
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...
A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas
If you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-right-wing outfit called ALEC — the...
The new American aristocracy
Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e., the will of the people —...
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...
How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public Postal Service
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee. But, psst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
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...
Who says America doesn’t need unions?
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...
What’s being taught at Koch Kollege?
Breaking news: An amazing new school for political activists is training thousands of people to be community organizers, using Saul Alinsky’s classic manual, “Rules...
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...
Putting traumatized immigrant children out of sight
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...
Our war president
What did you do in the war, Daddy?
“I was on the front lines, stringing bands of concertina wire along the border.”
Concertina? Were you in...
What is the ‘Trump Fix’
Few Americans have ever heard of Tom Barrack, but he’s going to be a big, behind-the-scenes player in Trump’s Washington.
Indeed, Tom’s...
