The Highroad
The corporate purchase of governmental power
Jamie Dimon of New York City made a donation to the New York Police Foundation this spring. “These officers,” Mr. Dimon said at the time, “put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe...
Paulson’s plaintive plea
Who´s the most befuddled Wall Streeter of all? The richest guy on the Street...
Fired CEOs get gilded goodbyes
In these times of nationwide job insecurity, with five applicants lined up for every job opening, CEOs warn workers that they’d better perform — or else. Or else they’ll be unceremoniously booted out the door...
Malicious merger merchants strike again
Five men suddenly found themselves faced with an all-out attack on their territory. Five men confronted by a hostile power. But these five men looked destiny in the eye — and then they suited up and took care of business...
Rick Perry’s ‘truthiness’
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert points out that political statements and even political facts these days don’t have to be true — all they need, Colbert insists, is some element of “truthiness...
Playing Washington’s inside game
Do you know any of the dozen Congress critters who’re on the superpowerful deficit-reduction supercommittee? I don’t mean do you know their names, but do you really know them — know them well enough that they’ll take your call...
The GOP’s jobs debate
Now, let’s turn the Hubble telescope to the far-away galaxy where Rick, Mitt, Michele and Goofy are contending for the Republican presidential nomination...
The Enronization of presidential politics
In the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago, unregulated energy hucksters created an array of dummy financial funds so they could evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, the funds were given such names as Chewco and JEDI...
Tea party Congress: ‘Power to the Corporations’
Good grief — the genuine populist fury of grassroots tea partiers is now being perverted into anti-populism by the very Tea Party Republicans they elected to Congress...
Corporate hoggishness run amuck
They´re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington — like hogs at the trough — demanding to be fed another tax boondoggle...
Yee-haw! Perry for president
The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...
A governor eaten up by corporate ideology
In office for only half a year, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has made clear to the people of his state what he’s made of: right-wing ideological Silly Putty...
