Meet a race-baiting ventriloquist

October 2020

If you’re a rich Republican who’s been in the US House so long and done so little that you’re essentially...

Bringing a rich, aloof congress-critter down to Earth

October 2020

Some people who get elected to Congress grow in office, others just bloat. Michael McCaul is a bloater. A self-absorbed,...

Trump judges require that ex-felons pay to vote

October 2020

How nasty is the Republican Party’s massive campaign to thwart democracy? Ask the good people of Florida. This was one...

Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

October 2020

Some of the most innovative organizing of working-class and poor people in America is happening in the South. And we...

Trump’s Rule of Lies

October 2020

Shortly after taking office, Trump puffed himself up in full Trumpian pomposity to proclaim: “We will honor the American people...

SPECIAL: Premiere: The South’s Got Somethin’ to Say with the Hightower Lowdown

October 2020

Remember when we said that we’ve got podcast specials for you? Today we’ve got a really special one. Last year,...

How social distancing can bring us together

October 2020

Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior...

What does “Small Government” buy us?

September 2020

Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders...

SPECIAL EPISODE: Hightower Chat ‘n’ Chew with George Goehl and MariaElena Fournier

September 2020

As you may or may not know, Hightower has been hosting live Facebook chats throughout the pandemic with activists and...

How to arm nature against corporate profiteers

September 2020

There’s a hunter’s nightmare in which a group of them flush some rabbits out of the brush. But rather than...

When the world’s on fire, what should we do?

September 2020

For millions of people around the globe – especially young people – the pressing issue of our time is this:...

Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: George Goehl and MariaElena Fournier

September 2020

It’s crunch time, y’all! We’re in the final stretch of this campaign season, and we’re about to bust some major...

Who’s making our medicine?

September 2020

Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,...

CEO tricksters cut their pay without bleeding

September 2020

COVID-19 has been a doubly-deadly disaster for millions of Americans, destroying both life and livelihoods. But one of the most...

The Dow Jones v. The Doug Jones

September 2020

Wow, how about that Dow? The Dow-Jones Average of corporate stock prices, I mean – the one economic indicator that...

Where did the Republican Party go?

September 2020

With our national election looming, someone should put up “lost dog” signs in every neighborhood saying, “Missing: Republican Party Platform.”...

Amazing! Republicans turn progressive

September 2020

Wow, what a surprise! Have you seen the National Republican Party’s official platform? Perhaps, like me, you would have expected...

Trump dishes up “Chicken á la Avian Leukosis”

August 2020

Top regulatory officials in Trump’s government keep chanting the same one-word mantra: “Deregulate… Deregulate… Deregulate…” Day after day, these agency...

Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Fred Harris and Teresa Leger Fernandez

August 2020

Pull up a chair to Chat ‘n’ Chew with Hightower and former Senator Fred Harris, who has been spreading populist...

Trump’s bassackwards government

August 2020

Gosh, our Trasher-in-chief has really been busy lately, calling Kamala Harris “nasty” and calling our post offices “a joke.” But,...

Save our Post Office… and our right to vote

August 2020

As progressive champion John Lewis warned, your right to vote “is not guaranteed. You can lose it.” You see, it’s...

Getting into “Good Trouble”

August 2020

In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in...

How intractable is CEO greed?

August 2020

As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people – the selflessness...

The deadly economic disease behind COVID-19

August 2020

In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in...

How to fight off a bad case of “CHS” Flu

August 2020

Unfortunately, an exotic flu epidemic has broken out in Washington, DC. Dubbed the “Canadian Hot Sauce Flu,” it uniquely afflicts...