Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
I've found it! I've discovered the original document from which today's Tea Party pontificators have drawn their political creed.
Tea-infused Republicans are the...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
The time has come. Six years after the Supreme Court's malignant Citizens United ruling, nearly every American plainly sees how our nation's...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
OK, people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must.
Billboards must be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere,...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Big news, people! Especially for those of you upset by the skyrocketing prices of the essential prescription medicines you take – including...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers that want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is that...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
The mantra of every Koch-headed, right-wing politico is that government should be run like a business, always focused on cutting costs.
Welcome to...