It’s time for people’s housing, people’s transit, and PEOPLE FIRST! October 2005By the fifth day — with New Orleans under 20 feet of toxic water, with federal help still nowhere to...
All politicians who support a war should be drafted September 2005George W was hardly the first draft-age man of means who used family connections to duck going to war (even...
Will this judge rule for the powerful—and against The People? August 2005In 1981, when blowhard televangelist Jerry Falwell exclaimed that Sandra Day O’Connor was not right wing enough for him, and...
The great corporate jobs-for-subsidies con-job July 2005What do you think of bums who come into our towns asking for handouts as though they have some right...
A corporate plan to trump our laws and the Constitution June 2005Breaking news: The Lowdown has learned from inside sources that the president will soon deliver a major address to We...
A city in Texas starts smart-energy driving May 2005No president has really been serious about conservation and renewable energy, but Jimmy Carter at least made a symbolic statement...
Naming the names behind the grab for Social Security April 2005When George W says he’s going to “fix” our Social Security system, I feel like a dog that’s just been...
Social Security ain’t broke, so don’t fix it, tweak it March 2005He predicted Social Security would go broke in 10 years and said the system should give people ‘the chance to...
More brand names behind the Bush agenda February 2005Did you catch George W’s pep rally just before Christmas? The White House solemnly billed it as a two-day “summit”...
Bush II brought to you by… January 2005The Capitol City is swarming this month with party-hopping Republicans celebrating the inauguration of their boy Bush—but the most joyous...
Fables, flim-flam, and urban legends of our time December 2004‘Tis the jolly season of Santa Claus, with fantasies of sugar plums dancing all about, so it seems appropriate that...
Reasons to celebrate and be hopeful! November 2004Okay, my election projections were slightly off. I said that there would be the biggest turnout in many years, which...
Progressive groups are busting out all over October 2004 Hey, come on, progressives— buck up! There’s been too much doom and gloom—especially among inside-the-beltway progressives—about John Kerry’s chances...
Can we prevent another stolen election? September 2004Forget worrying about an “October Surprise”—it’s the “November Surprise” that could squirrel this election! All across the country, there’s a...
The numbers tell the tale of the Bush presidency August 2004Listening to all this talk of “swing voters” and “battleground states,” I often think about my dear ol’ daddy, W.F....
Our health and education— trashed July 2004Observing from afar, it seems to me that “Being Bush” must be such a great joy. Reality never seems to...
We’ll have to build the people’s John Kerry June 2004John Kerry wrote to me last month. “Dear James Hightower,” the letter began (OK, it wasn’t that personal of a...
The People’s media reaches more people than Fox does May 2004Democratic reformer Henry Adams, who decried the decline in democracy as the robber barons rose to power in the nineteenth...
Bushco’s mad, mad, mad, mad mad cow policy April 2004When the first undeniable American case of Mad Cow Disease broke into the news last December, a host of Bush...
It’s not just jobs we’re losing—it’s America’s middle class March 2004Carly Fiorina is a Bushite kind of woman–Donnie Rumsfeld with nail polish. Like George faves Condi Rice, Dick Cheney and...
The Bushites’ betrayal of our troops and vets February 2004If hypocrisy were a drug, Washington would be the crack capital of the world. Congressional and White House leaders these...
We the people have driven the Dems to populism January 2004The oddest thing has happened. There has been a sudden outbreak of Democrats in the most unexpected of places: inside...
Cops were told to savage their fellow Americans December 2003Usually, I try to give you Lowdowners a break from bad news in December, a month in which we Americans...
Tom DeLay thinks he’s God’s man in Congress November 2003In politics, especially in the South, it’s not uncommon to be tagged with a nickname. In my first run for...
Who’s counting our votes? Bushite corporate bosses October 2003Welcome to WallyWorld. Like some combination of Oz, Alice’s Wonderland, and the Brothers Grimm, it’s a fabulistic realm ripe with...
