The Sad Whine of Supreme Court Right Wingers November 2021Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own...
Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video October 2021If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about...
Beware of “Spot,” the $75,000 Wonder Dog October 2021Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil...
Why Would We Let Wall Street “Care For” Our Pets? October 2021Question: 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? October 2021For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,...
CHILD CARE NOW! Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Bryce Covert October 2021For decades, the American child care “system,” if one can call it that, has been in shambles thanks to its...
Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama? October 2021Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a...
America needs a quality child care system October 2021Nearly every nation with an advanced economy (and some not so advanced) treats child care as a fundamental public good...
Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity October 2021Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well,...
The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery October 2021Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are...
Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers September 2021Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System September 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? September 2021Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the...
THE ELEPHANT IN THE WOMB: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Loretta J. Ross September 2021The outrage over the Texas abortion ban crosses all lines of race, class, and gender, and the Supremes have, so...
How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? September 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary...
Hey Washington: Follow The People September 2021“Those in the know,” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last –...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics September 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t...
Where’s the “Dignity of Work” When Work Kills Workers? September 2021Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. Of course, that’s “dignity”...
LOOK WHO’S ORGANIZING NOW: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Larry Cohen, Sara Steffens & More September 2021American workers are fed up with low wages, terrible working conditions, minimal benefits and so much more in their jobs....
Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs September 2021Here’s a hot topic for Labor Day: Heat. It’s been a hell of a hot summer, exploding the top off...
Making Work Work for Workers September 2021As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the...
What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing? August 2021Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact...
Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? August 2021At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s...
Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No! August 2021America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s...
Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video August 2021If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about...
