The Anderson Files

What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care

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The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...

The path to a Bernie victory

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Bernie Sanders can win. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won in “red” conservative states of the South, which Democrats will lose in the general election,...

The pendulum swings

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A year after Trump was elected president, we finally have something to smile about. This month’s elections brought a tidal wave of victories for Democrats...

The state of the Republican Party in Colorado is dire

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The Colorado Republican Party has suffered a big decline in contributions and currently has no paid staffers. The party recently elected a chair, Dave...

Trump’s war on workers

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Trump proclaims himself the savior of the screwed-over “forgotten men and women” of the working class. Every day, he hogs the media spotlight with...

Russian Revolution turns 100, Soviet Union collapse turns 25

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There was no official commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last year. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asked, “What is there to...

Is Bernie a socialist, a commie or just a New Deal...

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Back in 2016, it seemed unlikely that Bernie Sanders would win the Democratic nomination, much less the presidency. So there wasn’t as much of...

Helping heal the wounds of division

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The massive 10-part PBS documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick starts by saying the war  was “begun in...

India Walton and the promise of democratic socialism

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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...

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...

Infrastructure for the 1 percent

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The American Society of Civil Engineers grades our national infrastructure a D-plus. We desperately need to modernize our roads, bridges, schoolhouses, railways, airports and...

Big change or stability?

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Democrats are divided over whether to support a presidential candidate who proposes big structural change for the working class majority or a candidate who...