Jim Hightower

Thank you, Nicole and Jeff Rank for standing your ground — and standing up for all of us. This young couple from Charleston, W. Va., was arrested on the grounds of the state Capitol during a July 4 appearance by President George W. Bush [see Hightower, “Is this America?” Aug. 5]. They came to see […]

I bring you tidings of great joy! At last our Congress critters have done something to lift people up from the economic doldrums we’re in. They’ve raised wages in America! You’re not silly enough to think for a moment that Congress would raise your wages, are you? No, no, Nanette — for the past several […]

With the election looming, President George W. Bush is back to claiming that he’s a “compassionate conservative.” As evidence, he cites his centerpiece education law, the No Child Left Behind Act. This is supposed to be a “tough love” reform, compelling all public-school students to pass standardized tests. If the kids fail the federal government’s […]

Did you take full and proper notice of the political coming-out of President George W. Bush’s twin daughters? Jenna and Barbara Bush, the 22-year-old twins, have long been kept away from the political glare, but they’re now adults who have just graduated from college, and both have been brought into the limelight by the Bush […]

See whether this sounds familiar: A sour and rabidly partisan Vietnam vet named John O’Neill is plucked from obscurity by the Republican White House to be used as an attack dog against John Kerry. O’Neill creates a hokey “citizens” group to pound Kerry over his war service. But the assault I’m describing is not this […]

Wal-Mart has a problem. People all across America and the world are learning that it’s a beast of a corporation that — among other things — pays poverty wages, engages in massive sexual discrimination, exploits sweatshop labor, bullies its suppliers, muscles local competitors out of business, and tries to buy its way into cities that […]

Maybe you’re one of the 2 million Americans who’ve recently had their jobs offshoredto India, Pakistan, or elsewhere, or one of the millions more whose jobs are expected to be shipped abroad in the next few years. If so, don’t worry, Bucko, for a new growth industry has arisen that offers exciting job opportunities. You, […]

It’s been said that you don’t know what hell is until you’ve had an insurance salesman in your living room, prattling on eternally about term-life annuities. But I’ve recently learned about a deeper level of hell reserved for insurance-company hucksters who — get this — are ripping off America’s young soldiers. Companies such as American […]

Something major is taking place in our country that corporate chieftains don’t want us talking about: jobless creep. It’s no longer blue-collar families who are seeing their jobs hauled offshore to faraway havens of low-wage production. Now it’s hundreds of thousands (and soon to be millions) of well-paying white-collar and high-tech jobs that are being […]

What do Kalamazoo, Evansville, Albuquerque, Stockton, Trenton, Phoenix, Columbia, St. Louis, Knoxville, and Charleston have in common? All are cities where people have been jailed for displaying anti-Bush signs during public appearances by King George the W. Is this America, the land of the free? That’s what Nicole and Jeff Rank asked this July 4th […]

See George. See George in our national parks. George knows that parks are popular. George likes to go to parks and have the media take his picture. See George run for president. In his 2000 presidential run, George W. dressed up in khakis and held a photo op in a national park, where he decried […]