Clueless CEOs Confused By Workers Quitting September 2022For more than a year, America’s corporate chieftains have been moaning about “The Great Resignation” – the recent phenomena of...
Where’s the “Dignity of Work” When Work Kills Workers? September 2022Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. Of course, that’s “dignity”...
Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs August 2022Here’s a hot topic for Labor Day: Heat. It’s been a hell of a hot summer, exploding the top off...
Billionaires Playing Cowboys… At Our Expense August 2022Let’s all gather ‘round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol’ Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today’s hardy,...
A Tear-Jerker About the Housing Saga of Some Rich Jerks August 2022The “old homeplace” is a classic theme of Americana, expressed in everything from Norman Rockwell paintings to Woody Guthrie’s powerful...
Bringing Democracy to the Democratic Party August 2022Sen. Joe Manchin – a one-man political steamroller in Washington – is a Democrat. Except when he’s not, which is...
Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants August 2022From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people...
Happy Hour at the Hightower Chat & Chew Cafe: Rep. Ro Khanna August 2022We’re trying something new here at the Lowdown! We’ve been having a blast with our live talk show, so we’re...
Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking? August 2022America’s stringent system of corporate capitalism keeps carving out new depths of worker exploitation. Take Chick-fil-A, a right-wing, Atlanta-based, fast-food...
DO THE DEMOCRATS CARE?!: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Rep. Ro Khanna August 2022Urgent alert to top Dem party poohbahs: Too many would-be Democratic voters are disillusioned by your tone-deaf, wishy-washy incrementalism! On...
Should Making a Living Mean Selling Your Life? August 2022“Work your fingers to the bone – whadda ya get? Boney Fingers.” This 1960s song mocking the vaunted virtue of...
Should “Sudden Death” Be A Part of Professional Golf? August 2022Is it a good deal to sell out your personal integrity for cash from notorious scoundrels? Depends on your sell-out...
Whip Inflation Now! July 2022Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would...
Shhh, The Governor Is Listening July 2022Although we haven’t even gotten through this year’s midterm congressional elections, it’s still not too early to start examining some...
The Sunshine State’s Dark Bully July 2022How about Ron DeSantis? The Florida governor is the new darling of the right-wing media, funders, and other establishment powers...
The F-WORD: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Monika Bauerlein and Baratunde Thurston June 2022Fascism – it’s a term we don’t use lightly. But when the overwhelming power of corporations over Congress and the...
How Can Democrats Save the Party… From Their Own Leaders? June 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2022For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own...
