The Right Wing’s Program to Solve Childhood Obesity
Iowa governor asserts food program “does nothing to promote nutrition” and could contribute to childhood obesity! This plotline could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about … 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.
Just What We Need – Another Border Wall!
Republicans concoct a whole new xenophobic bugaboo to goose up their anti-immigrant demagoguery — another border wall. In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants … Read more
Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs Is Corporate BS
CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — are nightmarish creatures of industrial agribusiness. A decade ago, Oklahoma’s countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs — Concentrated … Read more
When Private Enterprise Fails, Public Enterprise Must Step Up
In cities all across America, private enterprise is driving poor and middle-class families out of their own towns. In cities all across America, an infiltration of private enterprise … Read more
Let’s Send All Billionaires to Mars!
Why not just send our “genius” billionaires to Mars, and let them report back? Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet … Read more
A New Road to Farm, Food and Climate Progress
Let’s build public support for fundamental democratic change in America’s food direction and climate progress. “Arkansas Traveler” is an old-time song of folk humor that tells of a … Read more
Want Environmental Progress? Follow the Kids
One breakthrough for environmental progress was made recently by young climate activists in deep-red, rural Montana. “OK, boomer.” That’s a snarky phrase currently some use to mock 60- … Read more
Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant
Just four giants — American, United, Delta and Southwest — now control two-thirds of all air travel in the entire U.S. In a song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie … Read more
Corporate Giants Say You Don’t Mind Their Price Gouging. Do You?
It’s pure corporate larceny, also known as price gouging, adding up to a stunning level of unearned profit for the perpetrators. According to an old saying, “You can’t … Read more
Here’s a Wild Idea That’s Taking Root
Students are organizing locally with a wild idea that makes a difference and makes a statement. Growing up, I absorbed a lot of values from my Ol’ Texas … Read more
