The Anderson Files

Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays

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The call and response was loud. “What’s disgusting?” “Union busting!” On a chilly Saturday evening on Dec. 17, some 40 boisterous demonstrators outside Ash’Kara restaurant at 1043...

Climate change, the GOP and Trump

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The Republican Party is “the most dangerous organization in world history,” argues Noam Chomsky. The GOP controls the entire national government — executive, legislative and...

Putin’s got a friend in Trump

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The Trump-Putin controversies have stirred memories of the Cold War. But the world has changed. The Soviet Union was a peculiar animal. The regime emerged from...

The untold story of Mexico’s COVID-19 strikes

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Let me introduce you to Susana Prieto, a hero of the pandemic you haven’t heard about. She is a longtime Mexican labor lawyer and...

Furries, far right and the Colorado GOP

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Nothing’s normal about this November’s election. Amnesty International has called on governors and secretaries of state to ban guns at or near polling stations....

The GOP scheme for autocracy

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Donald Trump may be the first mainstream presidential candidate who is openly anti-democratic. Does he want to replace July 4 with Jan. 6 as...

GOP racism and Trump

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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...

Fear, despair and gun profiteering

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The week before the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, Daniel Defense posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter, showing a little boy sitting cross-legged,...

World far right hijacks anti-vaccine movement

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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) says  the new...

Pushing for Medicare expansion and social transformation

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In the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, the progressive wing won on the issues. Most Americans support Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, $15...

The myth of the center-right

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Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio says that too many pundits and Democratic leaders pose a false choice “between fighting for our progressive values or...

Populism: bigoted scapegoating or multiracial progressivism?

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Populism isn’t a coherent ideology, argues John Judis, but “a way of thinking” about politics that can be employed by the left, right or...