Takeaways from the Election
2016 Election: Has our country gone completely nuts? No. There’s some good news. Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President … Read more
Jim Hightower’s Column
Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
We Should Reach Across the Border, Not Close It
America finds itself in a destructive border war — not with Mexico, but with itself. A nation’s border is nothing in and of itself. It’s just an inanimate … Read more
Media Missing the REAL Reality Show: An Epic Story from the American Heartland
The Cannon Ball Saga: Our inept media is missing the face-off between one of the world’s largest pipeline corporations and the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe. There is … Read more
A Tale of Two Pipes in North Dakota
In North Dakota, it’s the Native American ceremonial pipe vs the bruising financial power of a giant oil pipeline company. In bad movies (and bad history alike), the … Read more
The Ethical Rot of Wells Fargo, from the Top Down
Wells Fargo has been burrowing ever deeper into ethical slime Just when you thought that Big Banker greed surely bottomed out with 2008’s Wall Street crash and bailout, … Read more
It’s ‘Our Revolution,’ and it’s on the Move
Democratic change comes when workaday people start standing up, ala the Bernie Revolution. Revolutions R Us! From the big one in 1776 that created our nation to Bernie … Read more
Laboratories of Democracy
The states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, not strongholds of plutocratic power. In a 1932 dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted that the benefit … Read more
Donnie is a Trumpist, not a Populist
Trump is a lot of things, but he is no populist To many hard-working people, this is a time of economic uncertainty. Thus, it is important to point … Read more
What Can You Possibly Buy for 47 Cents These Days?
Our public Post Office does an amazing job very efficiently – don’t believe the lies that it is insolvent. Although most of us take it for granted, America’s … Read more
Cleaning Up After Pundits
Cleaning off the horsestuff that careless politicos dump on the word “populist.” Being a muckracking political writer often makes me feel like a custodian in a horse barn, … Read more
