The Highroad

Big beer, big bully

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If “bigger is better,” as the old saw claims, does that mean that biggest is best? Not in CorporateWorld. Chanting the bigger-is-better mantra, corporations...

The GOP’s jobs debate

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Now, let’s turn the Hubble telescope to the far-away galaxy where Rick, Mitt, Michele and Goofy are contending for the Republican presidential nomination...

Where is AI driving us?

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

How clueless can the GOP establishment get?

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Exciting news, people! The Republican Party’s establishment has a secret plan to stop its blue-collar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is code-named:...

Should our natural resources have legal rights?

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

Koch brothers out to conquer the countryside

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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...

Fly away

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Some are born with good luck. But I was 30 years old before Lady Luck smiled on me with full radiance, arriving in the...

Credit-rating finaglers freed by meek Congress

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America has the wrong approach for dealing with thieves. Rather than “looking backwards” at their misdeeds and “punishing” them, we merely need to ask that they not misbehave in the future, then monitor their behavior...

How Koch-headed billionaires plan to ‘save’ America

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The Koch boys live in their own special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth...

How politically brain-dead is Tony Blair?

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Tony Blair, Britain’s former prime minister, has lashed out at British voters for having “a shared hostility to globalization,” referring to their June 23...

The Bernie Sanders revolution is just getting started

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The Bernie for President campaign is over, but the political revolution that he launched against corporate rule is just beginning.        Sanders and...

Can Amazon sucker the people of New York?

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