Jim Hightower

Martha Kegel thought she’d seen it all – the horror of the flooding of New Orleans, the callousness and incompetence of George W’s response, the scandal of people still left homeless three years after the... [read more]

Did you get it? Did you get George W’s “signal”?

The White House says that Bush was signaling to us Americans last week that he was focused on our economic... [read more]

To find a splendid example of “The Common Good” in action, look to our nation’s extraordinary network of public parks – spaces open to all people and available to the community for everything from recreation to public discourse.

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There’s an old cliché that smug right-wingers like to fling at us: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. But if you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.”

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At Exxon headquarters in Houston, management refers to the executive suite as “The god pod.” But while the honchos of the world’s biggest and richest oil corporation might think of themselves as holy omnipotents, most... [read more]

I’m totally excited that our tax rebate checks are coming! Washington has turned into Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, all rolled into one, now delivering $300 to $600 checks to nearly... [read more]

If good fences make good neighbors, what about bad fences?

You could ask local officials and residents along the U.S.-Mexican border about that. They hate the monstrous wall that Bush and... [read more]

In a triumph of marketing over reasoning, the bottled water industry has turned us into conspicuously silly consumers.

Controlled by a handful of global conglomerates (such as Coca Cola and Nestle),... [read more]

Once again, our timid Democratic leadership in Congress is fumbling a political opportunity and bumbling their public responsibility.

The Democrats running Congress were as startled as Bush’s White House to discover... [read more]