Jim Hightower

  • Wall Street’s Mom & Pop Bankers

    As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of regulations meant [...] Full Story

  • Monsanto Takes a Tumble

    Poor Monsanto Co.—the mighty manipulator of Mother Nature has tripped on its own hubris, falling far, fast, and hard. The biotech and chemical giant [...] Full Story

  • Hiding Worker Injuries

    According to the latest safety reports, workplace injuries are on the decline in our country. Great! Only … it’s untrue. Many burns, cuts, poisonings, [...] Full Story

  • Another BP Outrage

    With the BP well capped and former CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought the BP horror story was coming to a [...] Full Story

  • Dell’s Deceptive Genius

    Let us now sing the praises of Round Rock-based Dell Incorporated. The computer giant offers an object lesson for the laissez-faire ideologues who keep [...] Full Story

  • Big Tobacco’s Big Whine

    Do you hear that long, low, wheezing whine? That’s Big Tobacco, moaning that it’s being picked on by a new law passed this year [...] Full Story

  • Online Voter Registration

    Ah, progress! I’m not exactly a model citizen for the technologically advanced, Internet-connected world we inhabit. For example, I don’t have a doorbell at [...] Full Story

  • A Traitorous Assault on Our Democracy

    In opposing Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, Republican senators loudly denounced judicial activists who would use the bench to rewrite the founders’ intent and [...] Full Story

  • The Gooberhead Sessions

    Time for another Gooberhead Award, presented periodically to those in the news who’ve got their tongues going 100 miles per hour, but forgot to [...] Full Story

  • Of Friends and Fruit

    Some years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple knocked on my front door. They had noticed I had fig trees in the yard laden with [...] Full Story