The Anderson Files
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...
Forced pregnancy & rise in fascism
Abortion is a unique issue in American politics. For many years, a majority of people have opposed overturning Roe v. Wade. However, many have...
Fake history of Civil War fuels MAGA
At the end of the 1950s, the organizers of the planned four-year-long official centennial celebration of the Civil War decided to avoid mentioning slavery...
Housing is a human right
Housing is really the foundation of so many of our social structures and without it, people just can’t succeed.” — Cathy Alderman of the...
Sorry, we created a world dumb enough for Trump
Hurricane Trump presents us with a peculiar sort of national emergency. Every day, the Bullshitter-in-Chief deploys a blizzard of lies, half-truths, conspiracy theories and...
GOP racism and Trump
Donald Trump’s zigzags on race can be confusing. He holds a polite, presidential-style press conference with the president of Mexico and then goes to...
Solidarity for All
Slain activist Vivian Silver preached peace — not just pretty words — for Palestinians and Israelis
Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays
The call and response was loud.
“What’s disgusting?”
“Union busting!”
On a chilly Saturday evening on Dec. 17, some 40 boisterous demonstrators outside Ash’Kara restaurant at 1043...
Russia: How it got where it is and where it’s going
Russia, Russia, Russia. Every day brings new stories of intrigue involving Russia and Trump. But there isn’t too much in the mainstream media about...
Fighting for more than just the next step
In a dark and perilous time, a politically diverse resistance has arisen to fight the Republicans who control all three branches of the federal...
Good and bad COVID-19 news
These days, people are searching the internet for good news. Journalists are searching for silver linings when writing about the COVID-19 pandemic. After all,...
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...
