Hightower Lowdown

Let's talk chicken.

I don't mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word "chicken" and immediately think: "Dinner!" Some commercial interests in Georgia, however,... [read more]

Goldman Sachs recently announced that the work of its investment bankers in the past year was so fabulous that they were being given bonuses totaling more than $16 billion. This caused many workaday Americans to... [read more]

In January, a cabal of five Supreme Court corporatists arrogantly overruled the founding fathers, congressional law, a century of court precedents, and basic common sense to declare that corporate money equals "speech," thus freeing these behemoths to dump unlimited sums... [read more]

They roll into Washington from the West, the North, the South – good ideas to make our national policies better, to make our economy fairer, to improve our nation. And these good ideas – still... [read more]

Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers?

Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth is that they are owned by you and me – the millions of mom & pop investors, pension-fund retirees, and people... [read more]