The Highroad
Amazon buys out Whole Foods: What’s it to us?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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!
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
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
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...