Naming the Names behind Extreme Weather
September 11, 2013 | How about making scientifically challenged politicians accountable for their inaction on climate change?
Articles by Jim Hightower
Idaho’s Reclusive Promised Land
September 10, 2013 | Zealous and heavily armed survivalists are establishing their own fortified town.
Our Bullish Sock Market
September 4, 2013 | The drive to pay workers less and less is leaving Americans unable to buy much besides essentials.
Getting Mother Nature’s Drift
September 3, 2013 | The lush lawn is dead in the parched Southwest.
Razing the Garden of Eden
August 28, 2013 | A Texas police operation resorted to paramilitary force in its fruitless search for pot plants.
Scott Walker’s Sick Leadership
August 27, 2013 | A rash of "state preemption" laws modeled on Wisconsin's precedent-setting legislation is blocking local mandates requiring sick leave benefits.
Wall Street’s Fix for Homelessness
August 21, 2013 | A former hedge fund manager believes that charity causes poverty.
The Food Stamp Fracas
August 20, 2013 | Republican deficit scolds turned into free-spending corporate socialists this summer when they doled out the most generous farm subsidies in U.S. history.