Demonstrating the depth of his insight into the problems of low-wage workers, GOP Rep. Bill Young of Florida recently “discussed” the...
You’ll be pleased to know that academics at such public-spirited institutions as Louisiana State University are dealing with the problem...
doing awfully well these days with their supposed “enemy” Barack Obama. The industry appeared to lose a round to opponents...
On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying...
What if drug marketers had to tell us the details of every under-the-table payment (aka bribes) that they make to...
What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain...
Even small cities like Austin, Texas, where I live, usually have a thriving co-op business community. To show the breadth...
Seems like this would be an easy question to answer, but it turns out that we could find no group,...
Unfortunately, the corporatization of America’s judiciary is not just a problem at the top. For more than 30 years, there has...
Is there no balm in Gilead…Â or in Washington? Will no Democrat soothe the people’s anger at the constant giveaways to...
Surging in Afghanistan The surge is on in Afghanistan! Unfortunately, what appears to be most effective is not the 30,000...
Profits up!” gloat today’s headlines in the business media. The New York Times reports that the profits of 175 of...
Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg , Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in part and dissenting in part....
Right-wing groups receiving major grants from the Koch Family Foundations (Charles Koch, David Koch, and Claude Lambe Foundations) Amounts granted...
To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the...
The fanciful notion that a corporation is a “person” and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from–get this–a mistake....
In a show of their selfless commitment to reform, a gaggle of health-industry lobbyists trotted out with President Obama last...
Last month, I asked my radio listeners to come up with new words to describe the abominable sense of self-entitlement...
Hightower and I launched the Lowdown in March 1999 with an issue about how the World Trade Organization was forcing multinational corporations’ version of...
You’ve gotta love the CIA for trying. It’ll give anything a shot–including a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding...
IRONICALLY, AT THE VERY TIME that boneheaded senators in Washington were working furiously to impose their anti-union extremism on our country, most...
A DECADE AGO, CITIGROUPÂ led a full-court lobbying press on Washington, ultimately winning what big bankers, insurance giants, and high-rolling investment...
Derivatives amount to a casino game. They are pieces of paper whose only real value is derived from the anticipated...
The Bushites’ trillion-dollar giveaway started out as a bailout for banks with big holdings of investment schemes based on home mortgages....
“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies, not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but at...