Baraboo, Wisconsin is known as home base for the Ringling Brothers Circus. But even that extravaganza of acrobats and clowns could not surpass the dazzling tent show playing out in Baraboo this month, starring the...

A farmer was asked what he’d do if he won a million-dollar lottery. “Well,” he said, “I guess I’d just keep farming ‘til the money runs out.”...

It never ceases to amaze me that corporate, political, media, religious, and other power elites routinely speak and act in the name of the masses – without ever consulting us hoi polloi....

Every once in a great while, a major media celebrity comes along who puts his or her talent and – well, celebrity – to work for the Common Good.  ...

Seeing two bloated egos like Elon Musk and Donald Trump hug-up recently in their marriage of political convenience, made me think: “Boy, there’s two who really do deserve each other!”...

Right-wing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud trying to delegitimize Social Security, slash its benefits, then – zzzzzt – kill it....

“I’ve got those, payday-Friday, grocery store blues.” That working-class-lament is from an old bluegrass song, but millions of working stiffs are singing it today....

“Big Boss Man,” an old song by blues legend Jimmy Reed, still packs a potent political punch for today’s working class:...

Here’s a hard-right political twist I wasn’t expecting, and Tim Walz is probably surprised, too.  ...

Challenging conventional wisdom can advance society’s understanding of truth. Good. Arrogantly challenging the complex balance of nature, however, can go kablooie! Very bad....