The Highroad

A morally untenable corporate system

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This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...

Keeping score on Exxon

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Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...

Entergy goes nuclear over Vermont’s decision

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The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont...

Punishing the innocent, enriching the guilty

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A recent email to me pretty well sums up the big budget hullaballoo being pushed by tea party Republicans. As the writer put it: “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401ks, took ...

Workers down, bosses up: a morality play

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It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains feel the pain of their underlings, who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett, the media giant that owns 23 television stations and 82 newspapers, including USA Today...

High spirits at the top

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If you want to know how the economy is doing, don’t bother checking the Dow Jones Average or tracking the unemployment numbers...

A Mickey Mouse wage hike

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Good news, people...

Help Elizabeth Warren fight the madness

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...

Bank robbers on the loose

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The popular perception is that bank robbers wear ski masks when doing their jobs, but a lot of modern-day bank robbers are wearing Armani suits and Gucci loafers...

How to hate ‘illegals’ and have them too

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Every state legislature has its share of incompetent, insensitive and often incomprehensible goobers sitting in seats of power. Sometimes you have to wonder who helps them work the doorknobs to get out of their houses each morning...

Congressional looters

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Beware — laissez-faire ideological loonies are loose in Washington! They’re waving machetes, toting sledgehammers, and going right for your Social Security...

Plenty of American jobs

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By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, our corporate chieftains have made us number one in exporting America’s most precious goods — our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities...