The Highroad
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...
Are the rich different from you and me? Ask Cadillac!
You know what our country needs right now? I think we need something that can bring us together again, something that can heal the...
Avoid Amazon’s ‘Cyber Monday’ and buy local
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...
Putting the Trump stamp on the public
This spring, President Trump created an inter-agency federal task force to propose structural reforms in the U.S. Postal Service. In only two months, the...
Fed up with Wall Street? Do something about it!
Instead of griping about the greedheads of Wall Street and the ripoff financial system they’ve hung around our necks, why don’t we “Take On...
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...
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...
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...
Why Paul Ryan should sit down and be very quiet
For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen. Indeed, in just the...
Let’s adopt the GOP’s national platform
Well, I didn’t expect this!
The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be...
Why the Bernie revolution will continue
The reason that I believe Bernie Sanders’ political rebellion will persevere is that it’s organic. Rather than being an artificial marketing creation sprouted in...
Why Bill Clinton should just go away
What’s past, as Shakespeare told us, is prologue.
So let’s flash back only two decades to that defining achievement of President Bill Clinton’s presidency: “...
