The Anderson Files
Misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic
The Trump years have been a long, bad LSD trip directed by David Lynch. Then COVID-19 arrived and we feel like lonely figures in...
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...
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...
The right wing loves insurance-company looting of Medicare
We are inundated with countless TV commercials by private insurance companies saying their Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are so much better and more affordable...
Biden’s populism and the stupid debt ceiling
In March 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders had a rough debate in a sealed CNN studio without a live audience to avoid contagion...
Medicare for All is a solution for the pandemic crisis
It gets tiresome staying at home (if you are able to) or wearing a mask and social distancing when encountering other humans. So you...
Israel and the Democrats
Israel Will Be the Great Foreign Policy Debate of the Democratic Primary” proclaimed a headline on BuzzFeed News in January. Support for the Israeli...
Police reform and the rebirth of hope
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...
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...
Trump lives in shadow of Watergate
Recently, long-time investigative reporter Jefferson Morley authored an eye-opening piece in The New Republic entitled “Democrats Are Trapped in Trump’s ‘Deep State’ War.” He...
Democracy or unfettered capitalism?
The constant chaos promoted by Trump is exhausting. But that’s the point. It is designed to create so much confusion and anxiety that you...
A progressive, populist message leads to Democratic victories
A growing number of Americans are dissatisfied with both political parties and the quality of candidates, according to a recent poll by Pew Research. Nevertheless,...
