The Anderson Files
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...
Is the U.S. marching toward a war with Iran?
A year ago, Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and restored harsh sanctions. As a result, Iran’s economy has been severely damaged. ...
The hidden history of U.S.-Cuban relationship
It was a turning point. Beginning in 2013, the U.S. and Cuba began secret talks in Canada and Vatican City. In 2015, Barack Obama...
Changes in Latin America
While Venezuela’s alarming humanitarian and political crisis has rightly grabbed our attention, another disturbing event in Latin America has been forgotten. That event was...
The doublespeak of The Donald
Many in the mainstream media talk about how similar Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are. Supposedly they are both “anti-establishment” populist candidates who are...
Coronavirus and big change
No more criticism. That was the message of U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to journalists. He castigated them for their coverage of the White...
Environmental transformation or a future of Katrinas
Naomi Klein says we had an opportunity for big changes in 2008 after the financial crisis hit and Barack Obama was elected president. She...
Beware the one-party autocracy
The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....
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...
Economists agree with Bernie
The popularity of Bernie Sanders marks “the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” according...
Tax cut madness
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...
Populism: bigoted scapegoating or multiracial progressivism?
Populism isn’t a coherent ideology, argues John Judis, but “a way of thinking” about politics that can be employed by the left, right or...
