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Jim Hightower

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The Trump Name is not ‘Golden’ – it’s Just Fool’s Gold

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Beware Of AI Swill – OpEd

George Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill

03.03.2026 3

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Jesse Jackson’s Most Consequential Power Was Not His Oratory – but His Vision

24.02.2026 8

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Who Were Those Masked Men? Feds Invade America!

If I were doing some of the stuff the ICE masked men are doing, I’d want to cover my face, too. Except for the masked men Zorro and Batman, people...

20.02.2026 90

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The GOP’s Solution To Corruption: Just Legalize It – OpEd

If you’re ever asked to define the word oxymoron, just say “Congressional ethics.” People instinctively burst out guffawing at the

08.02.2026 1

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Even in a Digital Age, Handwriting Remains Invaluable

04.02.2026 8

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Why Is the Pentagon Barring Military Weapons Repair?

28.01.2026 5

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Dirty Coal vs Clean Energy: Guess Who’s Winning?

21.01.2026 9

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Look! Up in the Sky … It’s a Bird, a Plane … an AI Data Center!

14.01.2026 8

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Pollution Protector – For Profiteering Polluters

07.01.2026 10

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Why America’s Legislatures Routinely Screw Working Families

31.12.2025 10

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A Christmas Message: There’s No Jesus in ‘Christian Nationalism’

25.12.2025 20

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How New Mexico Got Child Care for All — And How You Can, Too

17.12.2025 7

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AI Bots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – Corporate Profiteers Are

03.12.2025 7

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Trump and Walmart Make a Hash of Thanksgiving Dinner

26.11.2025 8

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Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ Sings Woody Guthrie’s ‘Mean Talking Blues’

Woody Guthrie’s ‘Mean Talking Blues’ is a perfect theme song for President Donald Trump’s “Project 2025.” Years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote...

19.11.2025 5

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Let’s Bust the Food Monopolists Profiteering on Thanksgiving

12.11.2025 6

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Instead of Consumerism, Let’s Try Consumer Sharing

06.11.2025 6

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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up – OpEd

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich

31.10.2025 4

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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich...

30.10.2025 10

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Another Hellacious Idea from the Texas Laboratory of Bad Government

29.10.2025 5

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What if Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?

23.10.2025 100

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America’s History, Says Lord Trump, Is Exactly What I Say It Is

15.10.2025 5

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Gov Abbott Says His Presidential Ambition Is ‘God’s Design’

14.10.2025 5

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Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Tax That You Do

My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet I do consider myself rich. Not Wall...

09.10.2025 10

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Warning: Just Reading About Bayer’s Greed Can Cause Headaches

25.09.2025 7

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No Need to Raise Social Security Taxes — Make the Rich Pay Their Full Share!

17.09.2025 7

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This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

03.09.2025 6

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Beware! Congress is Stuck in Reverse

29.08.2025 6

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The Texas Gerrymander Is an Attack on the Foundation of Representative Democracy

28.08.2025 7

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Trump is for Sale, Sure, but You Can Also Lease Him

13.08.2025 6

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Can Feisty Journalists Rescue Their Newspaper from Corporate Greed … Again?

06.08.2025 7

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Gaza Is a Moral Reckoning for Israel – And for You and Me

01.08.2025 6

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Disaster Warning: Profiteers Are Trying to Privatize America’s Public Weather Service

22.07.2025 6

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Sanitation Workers Should be Paid More than Trump’s Cabinet

Surprisingly, top Republicans in Congress and the White House have recently been praising labor! Well, not laborers — but “laboring.”...

22.07.2025 10

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Can Trump’s Perfume Cloak the Stink of GOP Corruption?

16.07.2025 5

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Bezos and Other Billionaires Defecating on Florida Town

05.07.2025 4

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‘Feed the Troops!’ Soldiers Say It’s Hard to Eat a $45 Million Parade

26.06.2025 10

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Instead of Being Down About Trump, People Are Rising Up

23.06.2025 5

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Call Them What They Are: Corporate Mobsters

13.06.2025 4

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MAGA to Women: Stay Home and Have Babies

The right wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.” But look out! Here come those same politicians,...

10.06.2025 10

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Should the ‘Local Shrimp’ You Buy Come from 8,000 Miles Away?

08.06.2025 5

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What Starlings Could Teach Trump’s Mean Government

28.05.2025 6

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Moral Rights for AI Bots? What About Human Bots?

23.05.2025 8

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My Church is a Farmer’s Market – And Vice Versa

14.05.2025 6

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Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need Or Greed? – OpEd

The federal budget is not only about money, but fundamentally about our country’s morality — our commitment to fairness, equality, and unity. Which...

09.05.2025 10

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The Big Fool Says to Push On – Better Yet, Push Back Against Him

09.05.2025 6

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Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need … or Greed?

02.05.2025 8

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What Is Behind Trump’s Lust for Greenland?

23.04.2025 6

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Trump and Musk Will Kill Social Security—But Only If We Let Them

19.04.2025 4

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