The Anderson Files
How the Green New Deal wins
This month, the U.S. House passed the most comprehensive pro-labor legislation since the 1930s. The PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act would significantly...
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...
The pendulum swings
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...
World far right hijacks anti-vaccine movement
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) says the new...
Democrats become the progressive family values party
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” — sociologist Jessica Calarco
Many Republicans went full-tilt culture war when Joe Biden introduced his...
Amid Ohio train disaster, labor and environmentalists need to unite
After the toxic train disaster in Ohio, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white and it’s politically conservative. That shouldn’t...
Is gun machismo destabilizing the US with paranoia and murder?
The pandemic inspired a gun-buying surge. Americans purchased approximately 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022, according to The Trace, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news...
Lessons from Nixon and Kent State
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.
— Neil Young, “Ohio”
Something ugly...
Building a global progressive network to combat fascism
We are witnessing an explosive revival of the far right across the globe. It is happening in Europe, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East...
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...
The path to a Bernie victory
Bernie Sanders can win. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won in “red” conservative states of the South, which Democrats will lose in the general election,...
Bernie’s foreign policy looking better everyday
Filmmaker Michael Moore says Trump “will take us to war.” He’s afraid that centrist liberals and the mainstream media will support him like they...
