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My pick for the next Speaker of the House

If it were under the big top, it would be a hilarious clown show – with pratfalls, wild posturing, tumbling, juggling and a cacophony of comic chaos.But alas, it’s under the Capitol dome, so

Illinois - James Krohe Jr

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 12:00 am

‘We are writing the rules,’ says Obama

By Jim Hightower

The negotiations and the sales push behind Washington’s latest (and biggest) “free trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater.What theater? Kabuki. It’s a 17th-century form of Japanese d

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 12:00 am

A flagrant liar for president?

By Jim Hightower

We’ve got a new darling in the GOP presidential race: Carly Fiorina!Being the darling du jour, however, can be dicey – just ask Rick Perry and Scott Walker, two former darlings who are now o

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 12:00 am

Thieves get richer the old-fashioned way

By Jim Hightower

With the 2016 presidential campaigns in full swing, the burdens of the working middle class have taken center stage. And believe it or not, there is bipartisan support from the front-runners on

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 12:00 am

Grassroots democracy building in Iowa

By Jim Hightower

As Henrik Ibsen said: “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”Democracy is never given to us, but has to be won through constant struggle against

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015 12:00 am

Walker gives corporations the gold mine

By Jim Hightower

Meet Scott Walker, corporate whore and lousy gambler (with taxpayer money, of course).The Wisconsin governor says he should be America’s next president because he’s a proven budget whacker w

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 12:00 am

Buying a president for $30 and change

By Jim Hightower

For today’s report, I have a bunch of statistics for you. Wait – don’t run away! Where are you going? Come back here and sit still while I drill these stats into your head. It’ll be fun, and y

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 12:00 am

A monument fit for a robber baron

By Jim Hightower

Occasionally I see something that is so bizarre, so out of place, so wrong that I have to assume I’m hallucinating. For example, I could have sworn I was delusional when I heard about the Nati

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 12:00 am

CEOs favor wage increases for workers

By Jim Hightower

Peter Georgescu has a message he wants America’s corporate and political elites to hear: “I’m scared,” he said in a recent New York Times opinion piece.He adds that Paul Tudor Jones is scared,

National - Jim Hightower

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 12:00 am

It’s time to free students from debt

By Jim Hightower

Butch Hancock, one of Austin’s finest singer-songwriters, grew up in the Texas Panhandle, out among dry-land farmers and strict fundamentalist Christians. Butch once told me that he felt he’d been