Jim Hightower

We should all be as broke as they are.

Keene, New Hampshire has no crime that would warrant rolling out a tank.

Some 300 uber-rich corporate plutocrats and their political hirelings have pledged at least $100 million to bombard the Obama campaign with viciously negative ads.

The plutocratic elite is perverting health care into a luxury commodity.

Top politicos in many states are closing many of their parks, slashing hours and services at others, or simply handing over the public’s asset to profiteering corporations.

For him, the right to privacy doesn’t exist.

After sinking into bankruptcy, Hostess Brands is trying to squeeze its workers without disrupting its junk food sales.

GOP lawmakers are howling to overturn the EPA’s mercury regulations.

Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas-based global casino baron who has long been a major funder of far-right-wing causes, is Newt Gingrich’s very special political pal.

International efforts to stamp out opium production are failing.

Being at the bottom of the heap in terms of social justice confirms the reality of both economic and political inequality that the Occupy movement is protesting.

Last year’s many political downers have prompted promising uprisings at America’s grassroots, including a strong national coalition for repealing “corporate personhood.”

Not since the Gilded Age, which preceded and precipitated the Great Depression, have so few amassed so much of our nation’s riches.

Until recently, New York’s official bug had vanished from the state that honored it for three decades.

Making clear that corporations aren’t people takes people power.

Gingrich, his lawyers, and his staff adamantly insist that it’s rude and crude to call him a lobbyist.

Neiman Marcus is selling decadent tents that are more opulent than the interior of that I Dream of Jeannie bottle.

Doting on the financial interests Coca Cola, ConAgra, and Del Monte instead of America’s school kids isn’t going to get the approval rating for Congress recover from an all-time low.

Far from being a chaotic war zone, a study of the 14 Texas counties bordering Mexico shows that the number of murders has actually declined in the past five years.

Walmart is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.