The Anderson Files
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...
Manipulation… Venezuela style
Twenty years ago, Hugo Chávez proclaimed the dawn of a new era of social justice in Venezuela after his landslide presidential election. He spoke...
Infrastructure for the 1 percent
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...
U.S. being treated like a developing nation
You know the old story of U.S.-based multinational corporations moving plants to the developing world, where they have a more “business-friendly,” unregulated environment under...
Populism: bigoted scapegoating or multiracial progressivism?
Populism isn’t a coherent ideology, argues John Judis, but “a way of thinking” about politics that can be employed by the left, right or...
The for-profit barbarity of mercenary Erik Prince
Donald Trump violated the U.S. government’s “obligations under international law” when he pardoned American mercenaries Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard,...
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...
Climate apartheid
The world is facing the prospect of “climate apartheid,” where “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the...
Pinochet’s fascist shadow persists in US and Latin America
In late August, a number of Democratic Latino U.S. Congress members, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), visited Brazil, Chile and Colombia. The three...
Organized labor; our sanity depends on it
Across the country, Democratic candidates ran on much more progressive platforms this year as compared to the last three election cycles, according to an...
The long shadow of 1968
In 1968, the world turned upside down. There was political upheaval on all continents. Rebellions were almost entirely unplanned and unorganized. Popular historian Mark...
Middle East meltdown
The illegal airstrikes by the United States, Britain and France seem to be more of a publicity stunt to demonstrate the moral virtue of...
