The Highroad
Putting traumatized immigrant children out of sight
In June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their...
The shame of climate-change deniers
Shame is that queasy feeling you get when you realize you’ve done something improper, ridiculous... or just flat-out contemptible. But it’s socially invaluable, for...
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...
How many tweety birds does it take to tweet the truth?
In CorporateWorld, when trouble pops up and things get sticky, CEOs don’t wring their hands and try to dodge the issue. No-sir-ee, the chief...
How to make Labor Day matter again
It’s practically unanimous: Nine out of 10 establishment economists agree that America’s solid job growth and the low unemployment rate truly make ours “the...
America’s war
America’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war. Not our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations — but our...
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 —...
Media monopoly… or democracy?
Monopolies are not merely un-American, they’re virulently anti-American, suppressing our fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all.
So, our people have instinctively rebelled at...
Trump serves the people — rich ones, that is
Donald Trump bragged in 2016 that, “I know words — I have the best words.”
Well, occasionally he does use some very fine words...
‘The New York Times’ strikes out
For more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit...
Babies on trial
We Americans believe everyone has a right to have their day in court. Right?
But what if the court is turned into a loony bin,...
Trapped in The Donald’s cuckoo nest
Insanity reigns. The inmates are now officially in charge of the national asylum.
Hidebound Donald Trump partisans keep insisting that their man is not certifiably...
