Jim Hightower

Here they come. The corporate front groups are moving fast – the ones that the Supreme Court unleashed on America's elections by decreeing that corporations are now free to spend unlimited sums of cash from... [read more]

Can five votes make a difference in America's democratic elections? You betcha, as Sarah Palin might say. Especially when those five voters are Supreme Court justices hell bent on allowing the unlimited money power of... [read more]

Having decreed that Corporations have a free speech "right " to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to elect or defeat candidates in our elections, the Supreme Court's five-man corporatist majority has opened a colossal can of worms.... [read more]

Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas.

From within the dark isolation of the Supreme Court, these five men have pulled off a black-robed coup against the American people's... [read more]

People are miffed. Many of Barack Obama's strongest supporters are getting angry at his policies, and they are beginning to speak out about their frustrations.

I don't mean those of us... [read more]

In opposing Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, Republican senators loudly denounced judicial activists who would use the bench to rewrite the founders' intent and invent new laws to advance a political agenda.

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John McCain built his maverick image in part by being a Republican senator who’s willing to go against Big Oil. As recently as June 13, he had this to say about the petro giants: “I... [read more]

EnergySolutions Inc. That name has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? But whose energy problems is this company trying to solve?

Italy’s, for one. That country has 20,000 tons of... [read more]

The most popular zip code in America for politicians is 10021.

This is the Upper East Side of Manhattan, home to CEOs, stockbrokers, and wealthy investors. In last year's congressional elections,... [read more]