The Highroad
Plenty of American jobs
By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, our corporate chieftains have made us number one in exporting America’s most precious goods — our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities...
A little less corporate political corruption
Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...
The mobsters of Wall Street
Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...
Cleaning up the stench of Washington lobbyists
Even a hog must sometimes gag at the stench of its own sty. Maybe that’s why some corporate lobbyists have launched a campaign to spiff up K-Street, Washington’s corridor of shameless high-dollar influence peddlers...
Rabbits, endangered rhinos and the Dallas Safari Club
Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...
Finding the money to fund higher education for all
Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions-of-dollars each year...
Gouging consumers with high-flying fees
Why do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies...
A morally untenable corporate system
This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...
Offshore corporate havens come onshore
From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make ...
Shoving America back to the Great Recession
The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of our essential middle class...
Where’s the ethical balance of America’s scales of justice?
Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan — but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America’s legal system...
