“We’re in the middle of a war for the very soul and possibility of democracy,” legendary Texas populist Jim Hightower tells TRNN. “This is not a fight about the Texas legislature. This is a fight ...

In a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact ...

Average Americans today might need to be counting their spoons, because President Obama and Congress have visited Timothy Geithner upon us. He’s the new treasury secretary, our nation’s top financial ...

Among those efforts, he provides a weekly newspaper column for distribution firm Creators Syndicate (“I took that slot over when Molly Ivins passed on”), and says he has always been happy with the ...