Jim Hightower

High-Low is a poker game that I've played in the past, but America's biggest banks have twisted it into a flimflam in which the deck is deliberately stacked against their own customers.

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Who says that Republican congress critters don't care about minorities in our society? Why, at this very moment, they are pushing hard to pass a $372 billion federal program to lift the economic fortunes of... [read more]

Old Congress critters never die, they just fade away. Into lobbying firms, that is.

Take former House speaker Dennis Hastert, former House majority leaders Dick Armey and Dick Gephardt, and former... [read more]

Who'll take a stand for America's founding ethic of the common good? You won't get such leadership from Washington – and damned sure not from those in the corporate suites who're ruthlessly pushing an ethic... [read more]

The great state of Georgia is famous for its peanuts, but I still say that my state of Texas produces the most extraordinary goobers of them all.

As proof, I submit... [read more]

Wall Street is a bizarre place. It masquerades as a sober center of finance, but it operates as a wide-open bazaar of anything-goes gambling games.

Recently, the biggest casino player of... [read more]

As any family court judge can tell you, divorce cases can be explosive. But for powerful courtroom confrontations, human divorces have nothing over the legal conflagrations that erupt when one corporation has been wronged by... [read more]

Congress finally passed a moderate reform package to tighten regulations on the banksters of Wall Street. Of course, the banksters howled, protesting even the meekest of reforms – but the package is now the law,... [read more]

"Knock it off," he barked to the rowdy and randy bunch of boys under his charge.

Unfortunately for John Boehner, he was not trying to straighten up the raucous behavior of... [read more]

For the super-rich hoity toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is unpleasant, messy, and... well, so common. Instead of that, they sniff,... [read more]