Help us out by throwing some cash in the bucket:
Click here to read Hightower's personal message about
REAL CHANGE
(not small change)
Hightower Lowdown
"The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
[read more]
Stay in the Loop
Sign up for email alerts, from breaking news to weekly commentary:
In This Issue
The media calls anyone who shouts "a populist"
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power
Also in this issue:
Subscriber Features
Manage your account by logging in. Don't have an account? Get the Lowdown in the mail every month -- for the unbelievable, ridiculous, low, low price of $15 per year! Save a tree and read it online for just $10 per year!
Search
The General Store
Have a gander at the whole store here...
Home | Contact | RSS | Privacy policy | Copyright Public Intelligence, Inc., all rights reserved 1999-2011
Matt's Pulitzer nod
Our own cartoonist, Matt Wuerker, got the nod from the Pulitzer Prize people to be a finalist for this year's Editorial Cartooning Prize. He didn't win, but Matt's work in Lowdown certainly makes him the most, well, populist of the entire crop! Also, a man not afraid of profundity: When he branched into doing cartoons online for website Politico, we wondered if cartoons are really cartoons if you can't stick 'em on the fridge with a magnet. "The Internet is just a bigger, better refrigerator door," said Matt.