Jim Hightower

Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you've been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don't have enough power over our government.

If so, let me soothe... [read more]

I have to ask: Does the Republican Party have a secret "Stupid Farm" where it breeds and raises senators?

How else to explain the far-out loopiness of several GOP solons who... [read more]

Great news, Americans – our economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February!

Well, yes, that's still a loss, but economists, politicians, and other peers of the establishment are cheering the news... [read more]

Would you have tea with me?

I'm talking to you authentic tea bag folks – those who are not corporate-funded, Republican party spin-offs, and those whose minds are not nailed shut... [read more]

Let's talk chicken.

I don't mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word "chicken" and immediately think: "Dinner!" Some commercial interests in Georgia, however,... [read more]

Goldman Sachs recently announced that the work of its investment bankers in the past year was so fabulous that they were being given bonuses totaling more than $16 billion. This caused many workaday Americans to... [read more]

In January, a cabal of five Supreme Court corporatists arrogantly overruled the founding fathers, congressional law, a century of court precedents, and basic common sense to declare that corporate money equals "speech," thus freeing these behemoths to dump unlimited sums... [read more]

They roll into Washington from the West, the North, the South – good ideas to make our national policies better, to make our economy fairer, to improve our nation. And these good ideas – still... [read more]

Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers?

Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth is that they are owned by you and me – the millions of mom & pop investors, pension-fund retirees, and people... [read more]

Isn't it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We're standing side by side with some of the most notable, incredible, and astonishing democratic leaders on the globe today. Specifically, of course,... [read more]