A wealth tax for American Progress December 2020The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to...
Where to get the money to start fixing American inequality December 2020Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address inequality....
Special gifts for special people December 2020Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each...
DADDY’S PHILOSOPHY December 2020This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...
Robot farmers – E-I-E-I-O! December 2020How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen … Angus? Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle,...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Senator Sherrod Brown December 2020After evicting Trump from the White House, progressives will need to double down, working to keep the Biden administration on...
Corporations are playing with our food – and our heads December 2020From kitchen tables worldwide you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the same refrain: “Stop playing...
Who cares who the Secretary of Agriculture is? December 2020Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, political, and social progress is hard, for such advances require rejecting policies...
The People’s Department December 2020The US Department of Agriculture – what is it and why does it matter? Created in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln...
Trump’s bassackwards government December 2020Gosh, our Trasher-in-chief has really been busy lately, calling Kamala Harris “nasty” and calling our post offices “a joke.” But,...
Which food future will you choose? November 2020America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of...
When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? November 2020Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big...
How wasteful is the Pentagon? November 2020Remember when candidate Trump promised not only to wall-out all migrants crossing our Mexican border, but also to make Mexico...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Nse Ufot & George Goehl November 2020What a couple of weeks, eh? We had 24 hours to exhale before being called to gear up for the...
The amazing fall of Donald Trump’s wall November 2020Big, high walls can be troublesome. Ask Humpty Dumpty. However, for a real-life, epic story about wall troubles, ponder the...
Finding hope in America’s progressive core November 2020Good grief, cry many progressives – how has America turned so right-wing that a flabby, narcissistic, wannabe-dictator like Trump was...
The Worst of Times, The Best of Times November 2020Many years ago, literary critic Dorothy Parker skewered an unfortunate author with her sharp wit: “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly,”...
What progressives won this year November 2020A jittery week at the polls, huh? One measure of our political anxiety is that liquor sales spiked this week....
Should gig giants keep gigging workers? November 2020Here are some of the big public policies people clearly want, but lawmakers consistently ignore: Paid family leave time; restrict...
To find some gems to vote for, go down-ballot October 2020There’s a mournful Peggy Lee song that asks the existential question: “Is that all there is?” Some progressives are asking...
Rich coaches teaching youngsters the game of life October 2020As a Texas high schooler many moons ago, I was the 115-pound outside linebacker on the Denison “Yellow Jackets” football...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Julie Oliver, Kriss Marion, Mike Siegel & more! October 2020Only a few more days to make sure our voices are heard in this election, at every level of government!...
A wealth of riches, a poverty of morals October 2020Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot...
The virus that’s killing America October 2020The holy mantra of health professionals was coined about 2,500 years ago by the Greek physician, Hippocrates: “Do no harm.”...
The exceptional greed of healthcare executives October 2020Sometimes I don’t know whether to weep uncontrollably, laugh hysterically, or just throw up. I recently did all three when...
