The GOP’s Solution to Corruption: Just Legalize It
February 5, 2026 | The party’s so-called “stock trading ban” still allows members of Congress to own and sell stock in corporations they oversee.
Articles by Jim Hightower
You Can’t Learn from History If You Cover It Up
October 23, 2025 | There’s not enough whitewash in the world to cover the ugliness of slavery, and it’s self-destructive for the government to try.
Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Taxes You Do
October 2, 2025 | This one honest, fair, and simple adjustment would keep the program fully funded in perpetuity.
With Gerrymandering, Your Local Rep. Isn’t Local — And Isn’t Yours
August 27, 2025 | This GOP ploy is stripping away America’s fundamental principle of representative democracy.
Sanitation Workers Should Make More Than Trump’s Cabinet Officials
July 17, 2025 | The administration is firing valuable public servants to cut taxes for billionaires. They’ve got it backwards.
MAGA to Women: Stay Home And Have Babies!
June 4, 2025 | The right is engaging in the creepiest social engineering of all: re-engineering the American family.
Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need or Greed?
May 7, 2025 | This year's stripped down farm bill looks to heap subsidies on Big Ag while cutting food aid for working Americans.
Trump and Musk Are Trying to Kill Social Security
April 16, 2025 | While Trump pretends he wants to save Social Security, Elon Musk is strangling the program with bureaucratic red tape.