The Anderson Files

Changes in Latin America

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While Venezuela’s alarming humanitarian and political crisis has rightly grabbed our attention, another disturbing event in Latin America has been forgotten. That event was...

The hidden history of U.S.-Cuban relationship

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It was a turning point. Beginning in 2013, the U.S. and Cuba began secret talks in Canada and Vatican City. In 2015, Barack Obama...

RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, MAGA-parroting ’60s nostalgia campaign

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Moments after President John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was frantically making phone calls trying to find out...

The war on unions rages on

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On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The Washington Post...

Progressives divided over county commissioner and sheriff races

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You might have noticed that the Boulder County ballot for the Democratic primary has only two contested races. As I was trying to figure...

Lessons from Nixon and Kent State

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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...

How to sabotage the federal government

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The Trump administration offers us a ceaseless sordid circus of chaos and confusion, which dominates the headlines. Each day is a new episode of...

Lessons from rednecks and dumb bunnies

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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...

Pandemic profiteering

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More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and more than 32 million have lost their jobs. During the first quarter of 2020 alone,...

Bernie and Biden vs. Trumpists in Brazil

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I am writing this a few days before the election and feeling anxious. This may sound strange, but a look at the recent election...

The doublespeak of The Donald

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Many in the mainstream media talk about how similar Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are. Supposedly they are both “anti-establishment” populist candidates who are...

Police reform and the rebirth of hope

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Multi-racial crowds of people are rallying across the country in the middle of a pandemic against police violence. The number of white people demonstrating is...