The Highroad
Why can’t our economy promote equality and shared prosperity?
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...
How is Trump like Humpty-Dumpty?
Comandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman!
That’s the image our current commander-in-chief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened...
Should our natural resources have legal rights?
From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but...
It’s greed that fuels this CEO’s ‘grit’
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...
Where is AI driving us?
With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...
A health care system for people, not just for corporate profit
America is number one in health care! But before erupting in proud chants of USA! USA! — note that we’re only number one in...
Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing
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:...
What does it take to get good policies from ‘good’ public...
Sometimes we forget that the progressive movement’s political goal is not just to elect “good” officials, but to enact good public policy.
From my...
Koch brothers out to conquer the countryside
It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer...
Daddy’s philosophy
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...
Front porch politics
If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump...
Here’s my plan to stop airlines from gouging us
In one of Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine comic strips, his character, “Rat,” develops a smart phone app that I want. As Rat explains...
