The Highroad
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...
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...
Trumponomics: Batman… or Dracula?
Even if a White House report is just a pack of lies, it still can reveal some awful truths.
Take the recent forecast by the...
Trump’s ‘tax holiday:’ Boon or boondoggle?
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...
AgriCulture outsiders tackle powerful agriBusiness
In the 1980s, when I was Texas Ag commissioner, my staff and I proposed a comprehensive set of state rules to protect farmworkers, public...
Should the rich get a special express lane onto the internet...
Last year, America’s largest internet provider, Comcast, took over the second-largest, Time Warner. So Comcast is now a coast-to-coast beast, running its proprietary lines...
How do you like subsidizing corporate crime?
Headlines periodically blare that this regulator or that has imposed another jaw-dropping assessment on some gross polluter or other corporate criminal. “Justice Department Slaps...
The Great ScAmazon of 2017
In September, the giant retail monopolist, Amazon, announced its intention to build a second corporate headquarters in Someplace, North America.
Where’s that? Aha, that’s...
What would a real president do?
Instead of the rule of law, the Trumpistas prefer to rule by fear.
Take immigration. “An invasion,” screeches The Donald, “a national emergency!” “The caravan...
A clueless dealmaker’s deal goes down
Why? That’s the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders’ relentless push to demonize and kill...
What is the ‘Trump Fix’
Few Americans have ever heard of Tom Barrack, but he’s going to be a big, behind-the-scenes player in Trump’s Washington.
Indeed, Tom’s...
Help save America’s public post offices
The U.S. postal system has 30,000 outlets serving every part of America. It employs 630,000 people in good middle-class jobs, and it proudly delivers...
