The Highroad
Have you heard the news? Poverty is over!
Someone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least...
Should we entrust our school children to corporate profiteers?
Betsy DeVos and her hubby, Dick, are lucky enough to have inherited a big chunk of the multibillion-dollar fortune that Daddy DeVos amassed through...
Oakland goes to pot
In California, a surprising new union movement is growing like a weed, having taken root in a burgeoning economic sector that has enormous potential: marijuana...
The real Halloween scaries of 2014
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...
Is Trump’s America our America?
Who are we?
Are we the America of courage, openness, inclusion, opportunity and democratic promise — as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the...
Spookinomics
Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked... and spooky.
Check out a 72-page “spookinomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic...
Advancing our right to trial by jury
boulderweekly.com/highroad One thing that gives me good cheer is the periodic eruption of legal common sense that provides a little more justice in our society. The latest advance comes from a state not known for progressive eruptions: Georgia. In 2005, the ...
Tax Dodgers Incorporated
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...
State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor
Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...
Does Obama even know what’s in his TPP deal?
Last spring, President Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the gleaming Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public...
How (and why) to keep the Postal Service public
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee! But... pssssst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
Pakistan is calling
Maybe you're one of millions of Americans who're down on their luck lost their jobs, had their homes foreclosed by the bank and are facing sizeable debt...
