The Highroad

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...

With corporations socking away massive profits, and with the labor market fairly tight, why are worker’s wages still stuck at miserly and even poverty...

If you think our government’s war policy has become out-of-this world cuckoo, consider the spaciness being proposed by the cosmonauts on Spaceship Trump. Spending nearly...

How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his part of the taxes that make them ...

A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his...

Good news, folks — our new president says he’s planning a “tax holiday” for you! Well... not directly for you. Trump’s trillion-dollar whopper of...

It’s “Cyber Monday” — get out there and buy stuff! But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this gimmicky shop-shop-shop day lures us...

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...

The governors of many states are boldly stepping forward these days to stop grassroots democracy. Yes, noting that local citizens and officials have been passing...

For most of us, food is not just fodder to get us through the day — it touches us emotionally, culturally... personally. We see this...

Remember Trump-the-candidate promising working-class voters that he’d be Wall Street’s worst nightmare, cracking down hard on greedy financial thieves whose scams and schemes are...

Here in America the word “fact” has a straightforward, rather obvious meaning: Truth, reality, something that actually exists. But we now find ourselves transplanted to...