The Highroad

Perk up people — for I bring you tidings of great joy: Gov. “Oops” is back!        Yes, Rick Perry, the former Texas...

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal last year, and in short order he has turned it into a tongue-clucking sympathizer with and proselytizer for the biggest of big businesses — not only on its editorial pages, but also in its news stories...

Every day on the job, hundreds of miners descend deep into the earth. And every time they go down, each of them wonders: “Will I make it back to the top today?” These days, though, miners and their families are wondering if federal prosecutors will make it to the top...

In the 1960s, I attended the University of North Texas, a public school blessed with good teachers and an educational culture focused on enabling us students to become socially useful citizens. And it was affordable — with close-to-free tuition and a part-time job, I...

Instead of the rule of law, the Trumpistas prefer to rule by fear. Take immigration. “An invasion,” screeches The Donald, “a national emergency!” “The caravan...

In my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men...

For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen. Indeed, in just the...

A proper wall, we’re told, makes good neighbors, but an 18-foot-high, 2000-mile-long wall goes way beyond proper, antagonizes your neighbor and shows your own...

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...

ExxonMobil, Halliburton and other giants of the hydraulic fracturing industry not only are fracking deep gas wells all over our country, they’re also trying to frack our heads...

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...

Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass imprisonment policies...