The Anderson Files
Laugh, don’t fight
On April 15, a distinctly disturbing event took place in Berkeley, California. Several hundred proto-fascists gathered in a downtown park. They were armed and...
The legacy of Joe McCarthy lives on
Donald Trump has been compared to earlier rightwing demagogues such as Hitler, Mussolini, George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. The name of witch-hunter Senator Joe...
Democracy isn’t corny but essential for equitable & decent society
Are the Republicans going crazy? They are banning books, criminalizing abortion, attacking public school teachers who talk about racism, passing anti-LGBT laws and indiscriminately...
Coors, Fox, Watergate and Trump… Oh my!
Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera recently told network host Sean Hannity that President Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal if Fox News had...
A Colorado universal health care solution
It is unlikely that any significant health care reforms will be coming out of Washington, D.C. any time soon. Meanwhile, there’s a growing under-reported...
Is Bernie a socialist, a commie or just a New Deal...
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...
History is in the telling
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories — triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically...
A new Poor People’s Campaign
Fifty years ago in January 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched the Poor People’s Campaign to protest the...
What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care
The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...
Capitalism’s fascist temptation
In 1928, U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon pushed the Federal Reserve Board to aggressively hike interest rates to control inflation and credit-fueled stock market...
How Trumpers learned to love Myanmar’s fascist coup
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution that censured the fascist military coup in Myanmar (or Burma) by a 398-14 vote....
It’s the health care, stupid
The United States currently has the highest per-capita health care expenditures in the world, yet we rank last among 11 developed countries for health...