What is “iyyikowa” and why do we need more of it? May 2020Charles Dickens, writing about the inequality and social turmoil leading to the French Revolution, noted that “It was the best...
What’s the Weirdest Species of All? May 2020What’s the Weirdest Species of All? I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants,...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez May 2020The future is INSURGENT! Join us for our next Hightower Chat ‘n’ Chew, featuring founder of Jolt Action and former...
What’s the charitable thing to do about inequality? May 2020Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of...
What’s the difference between corporate CEO’s and pigs? May 2020There’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that’s unfair. To pigs. Those oinkers...
Why is Big Business getting tax funds meant for small business? May 2020Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump – until...
Should Trump be America’s Postal Potentate? May 2020Here’s how I feel about the value of our nation’s postal service: “The humble Post Office is a community fixture,...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Mark Dimondstein of APWU May 2020Tonight, we welcome one of our favorite activists and agitators, Mark Dimondstein of APWU – The American Postal Workers Union,...
What’s the gimmick in Trump’s plan to “rescue” the public Postal Service? May 2020One thing we’ve learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump &...
How intractable is CEO greed? April 2020As 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 April 2020In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in...
Don’t shut the post office, expand their services April 2020What’s the matter with the post office? The US Postal Service, I mean – the corporate hierarchy that runs this...
Far from a loser, post office is a money-making operation April 2020One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us....
The chicken sh*t lobby for corporate health care April 2020As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:...
Health care for people… or for corporate profits? April 2020When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good,...
Wimpy leaders ignore strong people April 2020Right-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? April 2020Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,...
Can the Easter Bunny save us? April 2020Glorious news, people! The renowned professor of pandemicology, Dr. Donald Trump, has found the magical antidote to coronavirus that had...
What should happen to “Pandemic Profiteers”? March 2020Wartime profiteering has been as common in our country as war itself. Indeed, during the American Revolution assorted corrupt merchants...
How social distancing can bring us together March 2020Suddenly, “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? March 2020Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders...
Pessimism is the stealth enemy of progressivism March 2020There’s a short-circuit in the political convictions of some progressive-minded voters these days. While big majorities are making clear that...
Guess who’s winning the Democratic Party’s policy debate? March 2020The Democratic Party’s moneyed and political establishment – backed by a screeching chorus of corporate media voices – are gloating...
What happened to Trump’s peace deal? March 2020When dealing in matters of war and peace, shouldn’t a president sort of know what he or she is doing?...
Trump’s one-word re-election campaign March 2020“Socialism,” snarled The Donald at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back...
