National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 14,2013

Let’s adopt these GOP national platform planks

From Rick Perry to Rick Santorum, many Republican sparklies say they reject the science of evolution, favoring instead the “science” of the Bible, including some of its interpreters who cl

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 7,2013

In battling Monsanto’s greed, tenacity matters

By Jim Hightower

Remember the 1950s horror movie “The Bad Seed”? Any remake should cast Monsanto in the title role, because whenever something scary is being done to our food, you can usually find Monsanto

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 28,2013

Do more than the minimum on minimum wage

By Jim Hightower

“In the wealthiest nation on earth,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full time should have to live in poverty.” Right! Way to go! N

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 21,2013

Watch out – the drones are coming

By Jim Hightower

For nearly four years, President Obama refused to admit a foreign-policy “secret” that was widely known – that the White House, Pentagon and CIA are engaged in ethically questionable

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 14,2013

A common sense crop for America’s common good

By Jim Hightower

Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel and made a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garde

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 7,2013

Jamie gets punished

By Jim Hightower

If you are sensitive to stories of human suffering and economic hardship, let me warn you that the following report contains material that could be upsetting, so discretion is advised. It’s abou

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 31,2013

Inaugural address: progressive and presidential

By Jim Hightower

Skies were overcast, and the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees in Washington on Monday when President Barack Obama took the oath of office and began his inaugural address. In this year’s addre

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 24,2013

Who’s behind “Fix the Debt”?

By Jim Hightower

Top corporate chieftains and Wall Street gamblers want to tell Washington how to fix our national debt, so they’ve created a front group called “Fix the Debt” to push their agenda. U

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 17,2013

Why does a university need a CMO?

By Jim Hightower

The “ivory tower” of academia has become overshadowed by a new edifice on campus that is reaching ridiculous heights: the tower of mammon. As public universities have been driven by budget

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, January 10,2013

Small town USA averts police state takeover

By Jim Hightower

No doubt you had a lot on your mind in December – the dancing of sugar plum fairies, America stumbling toward the fiscal cliff, the outcome of the classic Beef O’Brady’s Bowl game an