The Anderson Files

Bernie-bashing Brock

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As Bernie Sanders has become increasingly popular, the Hillary Clinton campaign has gone on the attack. That’s fine, but it would be nice if...

Fake history of Civil War fuels MAGA

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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...

The pendulum swings

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A year after Trump was elected president, we finally have something to smile about. This month’s elections brought a tidal wave of victories for Democrats...

Biden and the working class

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“Democrats don’t know how to talk... the Democratic Party as a constellation is a victim of its own high-mindedness, its own sense of moral...

Free market fundamentalism and COVID-19

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The world turns upside down a couple times a day. As I write this, President Trump has caught COVID-19 and is benefiting from “socialized...

Beware the corporate takeover

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“Bernie’s where the Democrats need to be. He’s speaking to fears that working families have about the future, but he’s not dividing people the...

After defeat, far right contemplates insurrection

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Back in August, I was startled to read a lengthy New York Times article — “Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers...

Will dark money defeat progressive change?

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“The one-sided class war of the last 40 years is becoming two-sided,” leftwing philosopher Noam Chomsky recently declared.  He is encouraged by the many...

Can democracy survive if political violence is normalized?

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When White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, she declined to offer any comment, saying...

Fear, despair and gun profiteering

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The week before the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, Daniel Defense posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter, showing a little boy sitting cross-legged,...

What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care

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The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...

GOP racism and Trump

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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...