The Highroad
Is more technology the answer to too much technology?
We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets.
Musk...
How many tweety birds does it take to tweet the truth?
In CorporateWorld, when trouble pops up and things get sticky, CEOs don’t wring their hands and try to dodge the issue. No-sir-ee, the chief...
How magical is The Donald?
Donald Trump, the Amazing Wunderkind of Global Luxury Living — and now Our Nation’s Phantasmagoric, Fast-charging President — is proving to be a legislative...
The Bernie Sanders revolution is just getting started
The Bernie for President campaign is over, but the political revolution that he launched against corporate rule is just beginning.
Sanders and...
What’s behind this photo of corporate groundbreaking?
A newspaper photograph last June portrayed three guys in suits and ties shoveling dirt. They were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and the chairman...
If Trump is so great, why is his approval rating so...
Apparently President Trump wonders why he’s getting the lowest job-approval ratings from the public in modern presidential history. Maybe he should actually look at...
Wall Street thieves find ‘new way’ to steal from us
We know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash... but where did all those houses go?
It turns...
Dr. Ben Carson’s right-wing medicine show
The Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wing’s imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distress — a convenient ideological...
Why did Trump back off from his Mexican border tax?
Often, when world powers pick fights with seemingly powerless countries, they learn that even small dogs have sharp teeth — as President Trump is...
Delivering the news to the ‘New York Times’
Before major news organizations pronounce someone dead, they ought to check the person’s pulse.
Take, for example, a recent New York Times screed prematurely pronouncing...
Is it a crime to make Made-In-America products in China?
What’s the matter with Donald and The Trumpateers? Why won’t they stand up for the American workers and business owners who make their products...
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...
