National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 9,2011

Nothing merry about Old King Coal

If some predator were stalking fourth-graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools. But what if the stalker is the coal ind

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 2,2011

Privatization: The road to Hell

By Jim Hightower

Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why, for them, that’s just an eas

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 26,2011

What’s inside Big Oil’s head?

By Jim Hightower

The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams once offered to rookies: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.” A

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 19,2011

Helping the neediest among us

By Jim Hightower

To be fair to lawmakers, it’s not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public need and inadequate tax revenues. Legislators in my state of Texas, for example, are

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 12,2011

GOP House chooses big oil over Granny

By Jim Hightower

Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner, of course, is the league’s powerhouse, ExxonMobil. Four, as

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 5,2011

Wall Street tames Washington

By Jim Hightower

They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived tha

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 28,2011

A morally untenable corporate system

By Jim Hightower

It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains do feel the pain of their underlings – those hard-hit workers who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 21,2011

Unreasonable women take on the banksters

By Jim Hightower

They’re back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street who devised the Phantasmagoric Money-Fr

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 14,2011

Sacrificing teachers and firefighters to Hoovernomics

By Jim Hightower

America owes a debt of gratitude to such insightful Republican governors as Scott Walker of Wisconsin, John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan and Chris Christie of New Jersey. Were it not for th

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 7,2011

Japan’s earthquake jolts America

By Jim Hightower

The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about eff