The Highroad

Desite 234 years of progress toward the American ideal of equality for all, we still have to battle unfairness...

Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buy-out of Whole Foods Market is not only a win-win for both of them —...

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...

Imagine a headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill...

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...

In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires...

Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So...

Grim-faced military officers and ashen-faced politicians describe a horrific “war zone,” with “hundreds of people murdered” and “citizens under attack around the clock.” Some of the politicos say that the situation is so dire that it “may require our military...

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

You don’t have to be in “Who’s Who” to know what’s what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires and...

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...