The Anderson Files
India Walton and the promise of democratic socialism
These days, Republican leaders are labeling most ideas or policies that Democrats advocate as “socialist.” This is a decades-old attack but it is losing...
White people, Republicans and class
Class has been America’s dirty little secret. We have been told that we are a classless society. Tycoons and politicians regularly adopt an “everyman”...
Colorado’s GOP militia gang
Violent far rightists have been around for some time, but the Jan. 6 hearings have revealed their incestuous relationships with some of the most...
Paul Ryan wants all of us to live in Kansas
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants his trickle-down tax “reform” passed this year. Speaking before
the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) annual convention recently, he said, ...
Syria and progressives
Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica — and some are cheering...
Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays
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...
Sorry, we created a world dumb enough for Trump
Hurricane Trump presents us with a peculiar sort of national emergency. Every day, the Bullshitter-in-Chief deploys a blizzard of lies, half-truths, conspiracy theories and...
History has never mattered more
The Civil War still haunts us. In our bloodiest conflict, we were confronted with dilemmas, which persist in today’s world — the scourge of...
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...
How gun rights helped mainstream neo-fascists
As we anticipate the end of the pandemic, things are starting to get back to “normal.” What does that mean? In 2019, “we pretty...
Fascist spectacle on the American democratic stage
In 2017, Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon called Robert Kuttner out of the blue about forming an “economic nationalist” alliance of the right and...
What did Kevin McCarthy know and when did he know it?
It’s too early to know the impact of Trump’s second impeachment trial. Many millions watched it on TV, but the size of the audience...
