The Anderson Files
Why the King Soopers strike matters
“The companies were thriving, but our workers didn’t thrive. Know what our workers got? COVID. Attacked. Beat up. Spit on. Slapped. Overworked. And the company? They did great. They did absolutely great, sitting behind their desk doing their job by Zoom.”— Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 in Colorado
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...
The autoworker strike is building an alliance between unions and climate...
On Planet MAGA, where climate change is a Chinese hoax, rightwing media says Joe Biden’s promotion of a “woke” transition to electric vehicles is...
Starting at the grassroots
Many on the Left approach the coming year with trepidation but also some hope. The Democratic victories in November were encouraging and the election...
Labor upsurge promotes democracy and prosperity
We had “Hot Labor Summer” across the country, and working-class discontent continues to smolder. Health care employees, flight attendants, pilots, television and film writers...
Strike wave may be the beginning of something big
"There’s a new strike wave happening now," says Alexander Colvin, the dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The discontent has been...
Helping heal the wounds of division
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...
Environmental transformation or a future of Katrinas
Naomi Klein says we had an opportunity for big changes in 2008 after the financial crisis hit and Barack Obama was elected president. She...
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...
Fight the virus or just give up
Many months ago, public health experts predicted that we would likely have a dark coronavirus winter. Now cases are skyrocketing, the death rate is...
Self-deception and hidden agendas during the pandemic
The pandemic is challenging governments around the world. However, the Trump administration’s response stands out as monumentally incompetent and corrupt. There was plenty of...
House gaslighting panel and Trump-Russia mysteries
The “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is a grotesque, Orwellian joke. Created by the U.S. House Republican majority, it will...