Author Archives: Jim Hightower

Don’t trust business with education

Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations—and themselves.
By Jim Hightower
Posted on July 21, 2017 by Jim Hightower

Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick’s dad Richard amassed through his shady Amway corporation. But what they’ve done with their Amway money is certainly not the American Way. Continue reading →

‘1984’ at the grocery store

Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and that's bad news for humans.
By Jim Hightower
Posted on July 13, 2017 by Jim Hightower

Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of Whole Foods isn’t only a win-win for both of them, but also for consumers, for Amazon intends to lower the organic grocer’s prices. Continue reading →

Free as you can afford to be

GOP leaders want to protect your "freedom" to be poor, powerless, sick, and uninsured.
By Jim Hightower
Posted on July 6, 2017 by Jim Hightower

I think of freedom in positive, aspirational terms—as in FDR’s “Four freedoms,” or in the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people everywhere. Continue reading →

Trump’s Twitter bombs

If a president is going to pick a mess of foreign fights, wouldn't it be better not to pick them with allies?
By Jim Hightower
Posted on June 15, 2017 by Jim Hightower

Donald Trump missed his opportunity to become a General Patton-style military commander and glorious war hero back in the Vietnam era. He surely would’ve been the greatest in history, to hear him tell it. Continue reading →

Billionaires lay siege to state governments

While we're mesmerized by Trump, shady groups are pushing corporate-friendly legislation in statehouses all over the country.
By Jim Hightower
Posted on May 24, 2017 by Jim Hightower

It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus. Continue reading →

Walling them out, or walling us in?

Shall we wall off Canada, too?
By Jim Hightower
Posted on November 3, 2016 by Jim Hightower

Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, three Guatemalans waited till dusk to slip illicitly into our country. Continue reading →