The Anderson Files
GOP racism and Trump
Donald Trump’s zigzags on race can be confusing. He holds a polite, presidential-style press conference with the president of Mexico and then goes to...
Capitalism’s fascist temptation
In 1928, U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon pushed the Federal Reserve Board to aggressively hike interest rates to control inflation and credit-fueled stock market...
Time for the next step in health care
We have been told over and over that the United States has the best health care system on the planet. This notion is contradicted...
Did a CU prof almost spark an American coup d’etat?
In August 2020, John Eastman published an op-ed in Newsweek suggesting that Kamala Harris might be unqualified to be vice president because her parents...
U.S. aid to suppress Palestinians and democracy
Something unprecedented is happening in U.S.-Israeli relations. There has been a mainstream cliché that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.” It...
Paying attention
Trump may not have seemed like a “normal” Republican when he ran for president, but he now has a 90 percent job approval rating...
Fight the virus or just give up
Many months ago, public health experts predicted that we would likely have a dark coronavirus winter. Now cases are skyrocketing, the death rate is...
Biden and a progressive future
Hope just means another world is possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. — Rebecca Solnit
For many...
Changes in Latin America
While Venezuela’s alarming humanitarian and political crisis has rightly grabbed our attention, another disturbing event in Latin America has been forgotten. That event was...
Castro’s Cuba: The good and the bad
When Fidel Castro died, conservatives told us that he was a uniquely horrible dictator. These are the same people who have defended U.S. support...
Progressives divided over county commissioner and sheriff races
You might have noticed that the Boulder County ballot for the Democratic primary has only two contested races. As I was trying to figure...
Coronavirus and big change
No more criticism. That was the message of U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to journalists. He castigated them for their coverage of the White...
