The Anderson Files
Black lives, the pandemic and unions
The gruesome and public extra-judicial murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop sparked a gigantic wave of protests, which surprised everyone. This is...
Trump’s Bizarro World
In the 1960s, DC introduced “Bizarro World” in their Superman comic books. It is the fictional planet of “htraE” (“Earth” spelled backwards) where everything...
Strike wave may be the beginning of something big
"There’s a new strike wave happening now," says Alexander Colvin, the dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The discontent has been...
Ukraine crisis: fascist menace and a looming war
On Jan. 30, the Congress of Russian Intellectuals published an open letter demanding that the Kremlin avoid starting an “immoral, irresponsible, and criminal” war...
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...
How gun rights helped mainstream neo-fascists
As we anticipate the end of the pandemic, things are starting to get back to “normal.” What does that mean? In 2019, “we pretty...
Climate change, the GOP and Trump
The Republican Party is “the most dangerous organization in world history,” argues Noam Chomsky.
The GOP controls the entire national government — executive, legislative and...
Phil Anschutz, powerful but shy Colorado right-wing multibillionaire
Phil Anschutz is one of the richest people in Colorado. But he has considerable national clout. He is notoriously publicity shy and reclusive. Business...
Big change or stability?
Democrats are divided over whether to support a presidential candidate who proposes big structural change for the working class majority or a candidate who...
GOP Ultra-Maga Love of Authoritarian Hungary
There is a controversy among Republican leaders about publicly declaring what the GOP would do if it won back Congress and the presidency.
The GOP...
Fighting solves everything?
There is a rising wave of far right ultra-nationalist movements around the world. We’ve found that America is just as vulnerable as any other...
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...
