The Anderson Files
Not-so-innocent hyperbole
Only 11 percent of the media coverage of the 2016 presidential primaries dealt with the candidates’ policy positions, leadership abilities and professional histories according...
We can’t deny the similarities
It is dismaying how much Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are alike. That was the main theme at the 10th anniversary...
Trump’s Bizarro World
In the 1960s, DC introduced “Bizarro World” in their Superman comic books. It is the fictional planet of “htraE” (“Earth” spelled backwards) where everything...
Follow Trump’s money
Almost certainly, we are in the middle of the biggest political scandal in American history. After Trump’s obsequious performance in Helsinki, it feels like...
Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship
Mister Bone Saw. That’s what many people around the world are calling Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS). Growing evidence from various...
Can decency beat depravity?
Every 80 seconds, someone in America dies from COVID-19. Across the world, people are horrified by the American response to the pandemic. Beppe Severgnini,...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, MAGA-parroting ’60s nostalgia campaign
Moments after President John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was frantically making phone calls trying to find out...
Putin’s far right disinformation
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is shocking but how surprising is it? British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge...
Oliver North, the NRA’s new poster boy
Oliver North recently became the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The organization’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre, said North “is a legendary warrior for...
The 2019 war on reproductive rights
Technically speaking, abortion is legal in all 50 states. However, since the big Republican victories in the 2010 elections, state legislators have passed hundreds...
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...
Amid Ohio train disaster, labor and environmentalists need to unite
After the toxic train disaster in Ohio, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white and it’s politically conservative. That shouldn’t...
