The Anderson Files
A reason for hope
While the media’s attention has been focused on the Trump circus, an impressive number of progressives have been winning local races around the country....
Solidarity for All
Slain activist Vivian Silver preached peace — not just pretty words — for Palestinians and Israelis
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...
German coup plotters borrow from QAnon, Jan. 6
On Dec. 7, some 3,000 German police officers and special forces raided 150 locations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as in...
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,...
Lessons from rednecks and dumb bunnies
It was truly inspiring. Thousands of people sang and danced in West Virginia’s state capitol building in a victory celebration. They chanted: “Who made...
Follow Trump’s money
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...
Public banking in North Dakota
North Dakota is one of the three most conservative states in the United States, according to Gallup. Wyoming is number one, with self-identified conservatives...
Hope — if we are committed
In the last several years, a new conventional wisdom has emerged in the West about conflict in the Middle East. World leaders, public intellectuals,...
The myth of the center-right
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio says that too many pundits and Democratic leaders pose a false choice “between fighting for our progressive values or...
Beware the one-party autocracy
The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....
Paying attention
Trump may not have seemed like a “normal” Republican when he ran for president, but he now has a 90 percent job approval rating...
