Jim Hightower’s Column

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

“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general … Read more