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Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants

August 2022

From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people... Read more...

Happy Hour at the Hightower Chat & Chew Cafe: Rep. Ro Khanna

August 2022

We’re trying something new here at the Lowdown! We’ve been having a blast with our live talk show, so we’re... Read more...

Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking?

August 2022

America’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... Read more...

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... Read more...

Should “Sudden Death” Be A Part of Professional Golf?

August 2022

Is it a good deal to sell out your personal integrity for cash from notorious scoundrels? Depends on your sell-out... Read more...

Whip Inflation Now!

July 2022

Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would... Read more...

Shhh, The Governor Is Listening

July 2022

Although we haven’t even gotten through this year’s midterm congressional elections, it’s still not too early to start examining some... Read more...

The Sunshine State’s Dark Bully

July 2022

How about Ron DeSantis? The Florida governor is the new darling of the right-wing media, funders, and other establishment powers... Read more...

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... Read more...

Come On, Biden, Be A Real President!

June 2022

President Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure allies there that he will fight for them. And next he’s... Read more...

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,... Read more...

The Corporate Conspiracy on The Court

June 2022

Usurping the fundamental rights of women to control their own bodies. Authorizing corporate giants to buy our elections. Nullifying the... Read more...

Supreme Court Secrecy: Who Needs it?

May 2022

When Supreme Court member Sam Alito’s secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of women to end their pregnancies leaked... Read more...

Why Should We the People Respect a Court That Disrespects the People?

May 2022

Mitch McConnell, the perpetually sour old goose who heads the Senate Republican Caucus, had a hissy fit when the news... Read more...

Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama?

May 2022

Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a... Read more...

Why Would We Let Wall Street “Care For” Our Pets?

April 2022

Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars... Read more...

The Corporatization of Pet Care: Animal Cruelty?

April 2022

For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,... Read more...

The Republican Supremes Are Defrocking Themselves

April 2022

What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the... Read more...

The Sad Whine of Supreme Court Right Wingers

April 2022

Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own... Read more...

What’s Up with This Crazy Trucker Protest?

March 2022

The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine... Read more...

Wimpy leaders ignore strong people

March 2022

Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the... Read more...

Who’s making our medicine?

March 2022

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

Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs

March 2022

In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths... Read more...

Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path?

March 2022

Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,... Read more...

A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral

March 2022

Last July, several GOP senators combined their 5-watt intellects to charge that inflation was rising because of the “insane tax... Read more...