The Anderson Files
Police reform and the rebirth of hope
Multi-racial crowds of people are rallying across the country in the middle of a pandemic against police violence.
The number of white people demonstrating is...
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...
House gaslighting panel and Trump-Russia mysteries
The “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is a grotesque, Orwellian joke. Created by the U.S. House Republican majority, it will...
The state of the Republican Party in Colorado is dire
The Colorado Republican Party has suffered a big decline in contributions and currently has no paid staffers. The party recently elected a chair, Dave...
Lessons from Nixon and Kent State
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.
— Neil Young, “Ohio”
Something ugly...
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....
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...
Strike wave may be the beginning of something big
"There’s a new strike wave happening now," says Alexander Colvin, the dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The discontent has been...
Coors, Fox, Watergate and Trump… Oh my!
Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera recently told network host Sean Hannity that President Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal if Fox News had...
Russian Revolution turns 100, Soviet Union collapse turns 25
There was no official commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last year.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asked, “What is there to...
Infrastructure for the 1 percent
The American Society of Civil Engineers grades our national infrastructure a D-plus. We desperately need to modernize our roads, bridges, schoolhouses, railways, airports and...
Misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic
The Trump years have been a long, bad LSD trip directed by David Lynch. Then COVID-19 arrived and we feel like lonely figures in...
