How Can Democrats Save the Party… From Their Own Leaders? June 23, 2022“It’s over.” “Biden’s numbers are in the ditch.” “Democrats are doomed.” “Call the priest.” These are Democrats talking! Even before...
Come On, Biden, Be A Real President! June 22, 2022President Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure allies there that he will fight for them. And next he’s...
Enthroning Corporate Power Over America June 9, 2022“Equal Justice Under Law.” That’s the noble principle carved into the marble façade of the temple-like Supreme Court building. Today,...
The Corporate Conspiracy on The Court June 7, 2022Usurping the fundamental rights of women to control their own bodies. Authorizing corporate giants to buy our elections. Nullifying the...
SUPREME COUP: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Imani Gandy of Rewire News Group May 26, 2022For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own...
Supreme Court Secrecy: Who Needs it? May 19, 2022When Supreme Court member Sam Alito’s secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of women to end their pregnancies leaked...
Why Should We the People Respect a Court That Disrespects the People? May 17, 2022Mitch McConnell, the perpetually sour old goose who heads the Senate Republican Caucus, had a hissy fit when the news...
Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama? May 12, 2022Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a...
SUPREME INJUSTICE: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Lisa Graves April 30, 2022For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own...
Why Would We Let Wall Street “Care For” Our Pets? April 28, 2022Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars...
The Corporatization of Pet Care: Animal Cruelty? April 26, 2022For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,...
The Republican Supremes Are Defrocking Themselves April 21, 2022What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the...
The Sad Whine of Supreme Court Right Wingers April 19, 2022Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own...
Truck Drivers Hijacked by Immoral Corporate Bosses March 31, 2022Keep On Trucking’ was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb. Featuring various big-footed men...
What’s Up with This Crazy Trucker Protest? March 29, 2022The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine...
Wimpy leaders ignore strong people March 24, 2022Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the...
Who’s making our medicine? March 22, 2022Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,...
Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs March 17, 2022In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths...
FAMILY REUNION: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Beto O’Rourke, Nse Ufot, Sharon Lavigne, Diane Wilson, Maurice Mitchell, Nathan Proctor March 15, 2022Since organizing isn’t a one-and-done deal, the Chat & Chew crew wanted to re-connect with a few of the incredible...
Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path? March 15, 2022Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,...
A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral March 10, 2022Last July, several GOP senators combined their 5-watt intellects to charge that inflation was rising because of the “insane tax...
Whip Inflation Now! March 8, 2022Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would...
A Phoenix is Rising March 3, 2022Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good...
The Oracle Speaks March 1, 2022Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors...
A wealth tax for American progress February 24, 2022The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to...
