Even small cities like Austin, Texas, where I live, usually have a thriving co-op business community. To show the breadth... Read more...
We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around... Read more...
“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide... Read more...
Americans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: “You know you’re on target when you start getting... Read more...
Thank you Mitt Romney! Thank you for standing tall, speaking so forthrightly, and rallying so many democracy-loving Americans to join together... Read more...
You’re not likely to have known Robert Clark, Ruth West, Chet Newall, Webb Kamp, or Darrell Odom, but I wouldn’t be... Read more...
Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock form the Flatlanders, a powerhouse trio of Texas singer/ songwriters now based in... Read more...
Profits up!” gloat today’s headlines in the business media. The New York Times reports that the profits of 175 of... Read more...
In the 1970s, Lily Tomlin developed an iconic comic character she named Ernestine–a telephone clerk who took perverse pleasure from hectoring... Read more...
If a political pollster came to my door and asked whether I consider myself a conservative or a liberal, I’d... Read more...
“For too long,” wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, “some in this country have been deprived of full... Read more...
The name Felix Walker is not one you would recognize, but this 19th-century congressman inadvertently contributed a word to America’s political... Read more...
Having just graduated from the University of North Texas in June 1965, I headed east to Washington, D.C., for a few... Read more...
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970s, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked... Read more...
Hightower and I launched the Lowdown in March 1999 with an issue about how the World Trade Organization was forcing multinational corporations’ version of... Read more...
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, “I feel good about voting for him.” Ms. Jones,... Read more...
At a time when We The People have been vociferously and unequivocally demanding that our political aspirants offer Big Ideas... Read more...
Here they come–America’s Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons... Read more...
WASHINGTON WAS EXCITED. The media establishment applauded. Wall Street smiled. Somewhere, a bluebird of happiness chirped. In a celebrated display... Read more...
SUSAN DEMARCO AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU LOWDOWNERS A SPECIAL PREVIEW of our new book, for it personalizes the positive grassroots... Read more...
IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTINGÂ — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high... Read more...
A FRIEND OF MINE TELLS A STORY about the political demise in the 1950s of an entrenched Oklahoma state representative,... Read more...
WILL ROGERS SOMETIMES TUCKED little moral messages into his one-liners. For example: “I’d rather be the man who bought the... Read more...
FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is... Read more...
AS YOU READ THIS ISSUE OF THE LOWDOWN, I’m out on the political trail, rambling back and forth across America in... Read more...