National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 29,2012

Banker hubris knows no bounds

Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this really is a shocker: Bonus payments are down.Yes, the exorbitant bonus checks pocketed

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 22,2012

Speaking truth about power

By Jim Hightower

A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those rare citizens willing to risk their p

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 15,2012

Woody at 100

By Jim Hightower

Where’s Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics – with the money powers thinking that they’re the top dogs and that the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hy

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 8,2012

The Keystone XL flim-flam

By Jim Hightower

For Rep. Allen West, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is not just a policy matter, it’s a personal pocketbook issue. The Florida tea-party Republican (who, of course, blames President Obama fo

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 1,2012

Cooperatives over corporations

By Jim Hightower

We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation.This heav

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 23,2012

It’s official: Money now governs America

By Jim Hightower

The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich.For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy en

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 16,2012

What’s in your iPhone?

By Jim Hightower

Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire: “What would

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 9,2012

Newt Gingrich: The spawn of Citizens United

By Jim Hightower

Wow, January’s gone already – time really flies when you’re having Republican presidential primaries! And what better time than Presidents Month to poke into that warren of feral Rep

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 2,2012

Stealing the people’s property

By Jim Hightower

“Sorry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country, as governors and legislators are cutting off funds (and shutting o

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 26,2012

America’s class divide

By Jim Hightower

What planet does presidential wannabe Rick Santorum live on? When it comes to grasping the situation of America’s hard-hit workaday majority, this sweater-vested ultra-right-winger is further ou