The Highroad

The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon — it’s caused intentionally by policy decisions that corporate...

Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this isn’t a person, but the soulless ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive corporate front is behind hundreds of regressive ...

This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves...

Once upon a time, there was a place where the prevailing ethic of the very richest people was that monetary self-indulgence was tacky and...

If you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker...

The undisputed king of taxpayer scammers is Amazon — but a hardy band of New York commoners is delivering an old-line message to the...

The rich aren’t merely different from you and me... they’re ridiculous! The über-rich, I mean, the billionaire barons of Wall Street, who literally live above...

With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...

Stumpf” is a German adjective that means someone is obtuse, slow on the uptake, imperceptive... stupid. Ironically, it also happens to be the surname of...

Heather Bresch regards herself as a self-made corporate success story — a woman who came out of hard-scrabble West Virginia and scrambled to the...

From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but...

Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day!” But first, to help you absorb the big one, here’s a preliminary statistic for you:...