The Anderson Files

The Anderson file: Poetry on a mission

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the celebrated poet and publisher of Beat Generation writers, argued in an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999 that poetry...

A familiar path to fascism

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Donald Trump is the first major party presidential nominee to provoke widespread discussion about whether he is a fascist. It is a question raised...

Follow Trump’s money

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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...

History is in the telling

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History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories — triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically...

Phil Anschutz, powerful but shy Colorado right-wing multibillionaire

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Phil Anschutz is one of the richest people in Colorado. But he has considerable national clout. He is notoriously publicity shy and reclusive. Business...

‘Socialism’ is no longer a dirty word

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t expect to become a “Democratic giant slayer” as the New York Times would call her. The 28-year-old bartender and waitress from...

Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship

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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...

Starting at the grassroots

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Many on the Left approach the coming year with trepidation but also some hope. The Democratic victories in November were encouraging and the election...

Rage, despair, hopelessness… and the election

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We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hammer  In the 1960s, black people demanded to...

A new reality for Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. politics

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The Israel-Palestine conflict is frequently portrayed as an eternal Hatfields versus McCoys dispute. There is calm now after the fighting.  But Yousef Munayyer, a political...

The devil is in the details

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When he was on the campaign trail, Donald Trump denounced “free” trade agreements, promising something “much better” for working people than the North American...

Trickle-up economics

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We are facing two national emergencies: rampant economic inequality and a looming environmental Armageddon. Events in France indicate the need to deal with both...