The Highroad

With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...

In most state legislatures today, bizarre is not unusual, and off-the-wall has become the political center...

I like the word “lift.” It implies upward progress and a can-do communal spirit: Yes, let´s all put our backs into it, and lift this load. It´s so American...

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...

As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall Street bankers...

Wall Streeters are all atwitter about the comeuppance of Jamie Dimon, the haughty CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Last year, poor Jamie presided over a $6 billion loss by the bank’s chief investment office, so he’s now had his own pay cut in half, knocking him down to $11.5 ...

Embracing the world with our arms...

President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...

While we know that an antigovernment group funded by plutocratic corporate powers is behind the lawsuit intended to terminate Obamacare — who are the four people who’re out front as the actual plaintiffs in the case...

What if a political party’s platform actually stood for workaday people, rather than being a catalogue of far-out, right-wing nuttiness, or a batch of...

As Donald Trump said: “Strange things happen in life.” Yes — like him! Take that strange bromance he’s got going with his presidential counterpart,...

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