The Anderson Files
Corporate ‘centrist’ third party could spoil 2024
In 2024, a new supposedly “centrist” political organization may run a “unity” presidential ticket. No Labels is already on the ballot as a party...
Putin’s got a friend in Trump
The Trump-Putin controversies have stirred memories of the Cold War.
But the world has changed.
The Soviet Union was a peculiar animal. The regime emerged from...
The world will miss Tom Hayden
Whatever the future holds and as satisfying as my life is today,” Tom Hayden wrote in his 1988 memoir, “I miss the ’60s and...
The Anderson file: Poetry on a mission
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the celebrated poet and publisher of Beat Generation writers, argued in an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999 that poetry...
Biden and the working class
“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...
Trump’s trial run for a fascist state
A few weeks ago, Trump tweeted that he will quickly deport millions of undocumented immigrants from this country. “They will be removed as fast...
A reason for hope
While the media’s attention has been focused on the Trump circus, an impressive number of progressives have been winning local races around the country....
Helping heal the wounds of division
The massive 10-part PBS documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick starts by saying the war was “begun in...
Sanders, Warren and the art of media distraction
If you follow politics regularly, you have reason to be angry about something every day. Trump deliberately provokes liberal outrage constantly with petty and...
Anti-LGBTQ terror, corporate hypocrites, militant workers
Several years ago, corporate America began to celebrate LGBTQ Pride month with rainbow-patterned merchandise and participation in parades. Ryan Cooper, writing in The American...
A new reality for Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. politics
The Israel-Palestine conflict is frequently portrayed as an eternal Hatfields versus McCoys dispute. There is calm now after the fighting.
But Yousef Munayyer, a political...
Syria and progressives
Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica — and some are cheering...
