The Highroad

Public education used to be, you know, public, as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all, paid for by all through school taxes...

The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...

No matter how small the haul is, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about ...

One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from Afghanistan by 2014: Hamid Karzai...

Every decade or so, America’s mass media are surprised to discover that migrant farmworkers are still being miserably paid and despicably treated by the...

Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies...

 Hey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others...

Wall Street buccaneer Carl Icahn has pocketed billions on deals, but he says he’s now passionate about helping others. In particular, the corporate-takeover specialist is...

Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days — quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America...

Greenwashing” is the use of shameless PR campaigns by notorious polluters to portray their corporations as benign Bambi-loving protectors of nature. But now comes “Greedwashing...

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

The Federal Election Commission might as well be re-named the Federal Execution Commission, for it repeatedly and ruthlessly takes election reforms down a dark hallway in its building and executes them...