The Anderson Files

A new Poor People’s Campaign

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Fifty years ago in January 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched the Poor People’s Campaign to protest the...

‘Medicare Advantage’ plans are stealth rip-offs

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We are bombarded with countless TV commercials by private insurance companies claiming their “Medicare Advantage” plans are much better and more affordable than traditional...

German coup plotters borrow from QAnon, Jan. 6

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On Dec. 7, some 3,000 German police officers and special forces raided 150 locations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as in...

Labor upsurge promotes democracy and prosperity

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We had “Hot Labor Summer” across the country, and working-class discontent continues to smolder. Health care employees, flight attendants, pilots, television and film writers...

Democrats become the progressive family values party

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"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” — sociologist Jessica Calarco Many Republicans went full-tilt culture war when Joe Biden introduced his...

Housing is a human right

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Housing is really the foundation of so many of our social structures and without it, people just can’t succeed.” — Cathy Alderman of the...

Follow Trump’s money

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Almost certainly, we are in the middle of the biggest political scandal in American history. After Trump’s obsequious performance in Helsinki, it feels like...

Death cult or survival in a better world

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The president’s statements this morning encourage illegal and dangerous acts. He is putting millions of people in danger of contracting COVID-19. His unhinged rantings...

Fighting solves everything?

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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...

Not-so-innocent hyperbole

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Only 11 percent of the media coverage of the 2016 presidential primaries dealt with the candidates’ policy positions, leadership abilities and professional histories according...

Trump lives in shadow of Watergate

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Recently, long-time investigative reporter Jefferson Morley authored an eye-opening piece in The New Republic entitled “Democrats Are Trapped in Trump’s ‘Deep State’ War.” He...

Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship

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Mister Bone Saw. That’s what many people around the world are calling Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS). Growing evidence from various...