A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from abuse by giant corporations. But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards — using the agency to …

Given the increasing dominance of right-wing politics by arrogant, super-rich Tech Bros, here’s a question about wealth inequality for your barroom philosophers to ponder: Does one have to be born …

In 1988, I was one of only two White elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party’s nominee for president. The other was Bernie Sanders, then the mayor of …

While the production of my Lowdown commentaries is high-tech, I confess that I’m antiquated. I still write each piece in longhand, applying my ballpoint to paper. This has caused bewildered …

Pollution Protector — For Profiteering Polluters   There’s greed ... and then there’s the nauseating greed of profiteering corporations that make a killing — literally — by …

How about some good news for a change? News that has nothing to do with Donald Whatzizname. News you might even use. It’s about “The Library of Things,” a real library, but …

Sometimes, cosmic oddities come together in comic ways. For example, Google positions the biography of right-wing Texas governor Greg Abbott right under the one for yesteryear’s slapstick …

Jim Hightower

Disaster Warning: Profiteers Are Trying To Privatize America’s Public Weather Service

Bezos and Other Billionaires Defecate on Florida Town   Don’t let it be said that the superrich care only about themselves, always taking from society and giving nothing back. …

CEOs and tech investors are desperate to deflect workers fury over the joblessness that awaits them when AI makes a workerless workplace possible. By Jim Hightower

It’s been my honor to know a few real heroes — people who’ve selflessly dared to fight greed and oppression to advance the common good. Diane Wilson, for example. For 40 years, this fiery …

You’re not fooling me, Jimmy Carter. You did that on purpose! Dying when you did, I mean. You chose December to grab the global political spotlight once more to make a statement with the only …

Social media has been lighting up like fireworks, with myriad Trump voters exclaiming, “I didn’t know he meant me!” For example, many MAGA cheerleaders are now shocked to learn that his …

Wow! Who says election promises don’t produce real change? nnCandidate Donald Trump had loudly proclaimed that he’d force U.S. corporations to move their Chinese manufacturing jobs back to …

Many people feel that America’s political campaigns have become vapid PR hustles with little connection to the real-life concerns of workaday people. Luckily, Adam Swart says he has the fix for …

Sadism and masochism (abbreviated as S&M) are generally frowned on in polite society as perverse acts of sexual gratification. But what should we make of M&As? This is Wall Street’s …

Perhaps you’ve noticed from the shrinkage (or total elimination) of your local newspaper that this source of hometown journalism has become monopolized, nationalized and trivialized by conglomerate …

Baraboo, Wisconsin, is known as the former home of the Ringling Bros. Circus’ headquarters. But even that extravaganza of acrobats and clowns could not surpass the dazzling tent show playing out in …