Jim Hightower’s Column

There’s a better way of organizing America’s economic strength: The Cooperative Way We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our … Read more

There’s rich, and then there’s really, really, really rich By Jim Hightower The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also … Read more

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 … Read more

Wow, January’s gone already — time really flies when you’re having Republican presidential primaries! And what better time than Groundhog Day to poke into that warren of feral … Read more

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 out than … Read more

Oh, to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! If you need a symbol of how America’s decade-long war is going in this faraway land, … Read more

And away we go! Not just into a new year, but –zap! — suddenly we find ourselves catapulted en masse into the turbulent Twilight Zone of the 2012 … Read more

Give a little piece of yourself to show you care It wasn’t that long ago that the act of “gift giving” didn’t require a maddening trip to Walmart … Read more

By Jim Hightower It’s at this time of the year that generous, big-hearted Americans reach out to aid the less fortunate among us – like those who’ve recently … Read more