The Highroad

Thanks to the industrializers of American agriculture, we finally know why the chicken crossed the road: To run away from the factory farm...

It’s always interesting to see Congress in action, though “interesting” can also be appalling. For example, what a sight it is to watch Republican leaders as they gleefully try to repeal Obamacare, the law extending health care coverage to all Americans. As they vote...

He did it. Unfortunately. Sadly. Disappointingly...

Before major news organizations pronounce someone dead, they ought to check the person’s pulse. Take, for example, a recent New York Times screed prematurely pronouncing...

Question: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos. She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education...

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

Rather than finding ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of it...

Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies to them...

Generals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work. So, meet HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a quiet but bloodstained commandante in General Trump’s relentless...

If you wonder why Congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do — while doing things that people don’t want them...

Environmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced, since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of climate change activists called 350 ...

Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into the back rooms of power to talk softly about payback...