National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 24,2011

America’s true crisis

The greatest problem our nation faces can be summed up in one word: leadership. OK, make that three words: lack of leadership. America’s corporate, political, media, academic and other leaders a

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 17,2011

The corporate/GOP attack on America’s middle class

By Jim Hightower

The most revealing comments by politicians are rarely revealed. This is because they’re made in unrecorded conversations, when politicos let their guard down. However, in a recent sting, blogger

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 10,2011

The Kochs and the guv stir up a hornets’ nest

By Jim Hightower

Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care worker

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 3,2011

Crybabies commit corporate lawsuit abuse

By Jim Hightower

Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days – quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of corporate America. Take Charles and David Koch, two multibillionaire brothers whose l

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 24,2011

Ethics, health care, guns and Congress critters

By Jim Hightower

This new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old ethics-be-damned House run just a few years ago by the convicted money-launderer, Tom DeLay – only more so. Back wh

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 17,2011

Obama walks in the wrong direction

By Jim Hightower

As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America’s avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. C

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 10,2011

The Kochs are coming!

By Jim Hightower

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors, keeping their identities and self-servi

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 3,2011

Obama, Inc.

By Jim Hightower

Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they’re recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they’ve come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get Ame

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 27,2011

GOP gives back to its corporate sponsors

By Jim Hightower

Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country who had fueled the Republican takeover

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 20,2011

Power from the banks and to the people

By Jim Hightower

Populist banker. Now those are two words you rarely see linked together. But Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, truly is a rarity. Firmly rooted in small town Iowa an