The Anderson Files

Tax cut madness

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It’s difficult to exaggerate the significance of what the Republicans are trying to do with their grotesque and brazen tax scam. They are determined...

Phil Anschutz, powerful but shy Colorado right-wing multibillionaire

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Phil Anschutz is one of the richest people in Colorado. But he has considerable national clout. He is notoriously publicity shy and reclusive. Business...

Capitalism’s fascist temptation

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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...

How U.S. rightwingers learned to love Putin

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Millions of Republicans either support or don’t give a damn about Russian interference in the midterm elections this year. According to a Yahoo Finance/SurveyMonkey poll...

The student debt mess grew out of Reagan’s war on ‘intellectual...

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It was a shock when the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 for student loan borrowers. Biden responded with...

Trump’s Bizarro World

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In the 1960s, DC introduced “Bizarro World” in their Superman comic books. It is the fictional planet of “htraE” (“Earth” spelled backwards) where everything...

The untold story of Mexico’s COVID-19 strikes

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Let me introduce you to Susana Prieto, a hero of the pandemic you haven’t heard about. She is a longtime Mexican labor lawyer and...

Fighting the Gentleman’s Insurrection

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The House committee to investigate the violent January 6 attempted coup d'etat is in a race against time. If the Democrats lose the House...

Dilemma 2020

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Trump might be re-elected. He is highly unpopular but his Democratic opponent might end up being just as unpopular after a likely vicious campaign....

Coors, Fox, Watergate and Trump… Oh my!

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Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera recently told network host Sean Hannity that President Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal if Fox News had...

Fight the virus or just give up

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Many months ago, public health experts predicted that we would likely have a dark coronavirus winter. Now cases are skyrocketing, the death rate is...

Starting at the grassroots

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Many on the Left approach the coming year with trepidation but also some hope. The Democratic victories in November were encouraging and the election...