The Anderson Files
Climate apartheid
The world is facing the prospect of “climate apartheid,” where “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the...
Pandemic profiteering
More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and more than 32 million have lost their jobs. During the first quarter of 2020 alone,...
GOP racism and Trump
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...
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...
History is in the telling
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories — triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically...
Fighting for more than just the next step
In a dark and perilous time, a politically diverse resistance has arisen to fight the Republicans who control all three branches of the federal...
‘Socialism’ is no longer a dirty word
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t expect to become a “Democratic giant slayer” as the New York Times would call her. The 28-year-old bartender and waitress from...
The long shadow of 1968
In 1968, the world turned upside down. There was political upheaval on all continents. Rebellions were almost entirely unplanned and unorganized. Popular historian Mark...
The GOP scheme for autocracy
Donald Trump may be the first mainstream presidential candidate who is openly anti-democratic. Does he want to replace July 4 with Jan. 6 as...
Syria: A different perspective
Five years ago, the people of Syria rebelled in peaceful protests for political freedom and social justice, which were inspired by the “Arab Spring”...
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...
Starting at the grassroots
Many on the Left approach the coming year with trepidation but also some hope. The Democratic victories in November were encouraging and the election...
