The Highroad

Amazon buys out Whole Foods: What’s it to us?

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Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buy-out of Whole Foods Market is not only a win-win for both of them —...

The New American Aristocracy

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Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...

When will Wall Street quit being stupid?

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The self-described “Geniuses of Wall Street” are being stupid. Again. In 2007, their stupid schemes and frauds crashed our economy, destroying middle-class jobs, wealth and...

How America’s middle class rose, and fell

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From 1776 forward, the “common yeoman” — America’s middle class — has been hailed as the virtuous heart and backbone of our nation. How ironic,...

Can’t America do better than today’s ripoff health care system?

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Rather than a health care system, our country’s leaders have kept us shackled to a “corporate care” system, allowing insurance giants, drug company gougers,...

How bad public policy happens

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If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence —...

The unnatural disasters pushing farmers off the land

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As a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but you have to start with a large fortune.” Farmers tend...

Adios, Amazon

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Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...

How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor?

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Generals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work. So, meet HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a quiet but bloodstained commandante in General Trump’s relentless...

Robot farmers — bull, bull, bull, bull!

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How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen... Angus? Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle, but Angus, the 1,000-pound “farmer...

Real news, fake news and BS news

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How can journalism help people make sense of our turbulent world if it can’t make sense of itself? In addition to “news” (which involves reporting...

Cowboys for Liberty

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What’s in a name? By definition, the name of a person, place or thing is its personal designation... a distinct way of being known...