National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 2,2010

Wall Street’s connected lobbyists

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 packag

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 26,2010

Corporate America speaking out

By Jim Hightower

Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no way,” “forget about it,&rdq

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 19,2010

New outrages keep gushing from BP

By Jim Hightower

With BP’s well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor.åIn

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 12,2010

Fighting back against the banksters

By Jim Hightower

Oh, them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investiga

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 5,2010

Truth and irony in agriculture fiascos

By Jim Hightower

The Shirley Sherrod Story started innocently. It was a beautiful anecdote of redemption and personal growth, which she related last year at a meeting of the Georgia NAACP. The story told by this

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 29,2010

Grinning bankers

By Jim Hightower

Like ugly on a toad, banker greed just can’t be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory soap you use. Last week, Congress enacted new rules to govern America’s huge banks, thus com

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 22,2010

Jobless ‘recovery’ requires rebuilding America

By Jim Hightower

The good news is that America’s economy continues to grow. The bad news is that most people’s personal economies continue to shrivel. The June report on jobs glows with the happy news that

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 15,2010

Reassembling America’s democracy

By Jim Hightower

On the Fourth of July, we celebrated Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Madison and all the other great men who created our democracy, right? Not exactly. The founders did create the framework for a democrat

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 8,2010

The GOP’s genetic link to big oil

By Jim Hightower

If scientists were to compare the DNA of Republican congress-critters and of oil corporations, I’ll bet they’d find that they match perfectly. After all, the two species have identical pol

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 1,2010

Enter, real populists

By Jim Hightower

Few people today call themselves populists, but I think most are. I’m not talking about the recent political outbursts by confused, used and abused tea-bag ranters who’ve been organized by