The Anderson Files
Trump exposes liberal ignorance of the working class
The working class is invisible in this country much of the time. But in election years, the white folks in this demographic are discussed...
Good judgment or Clinton
There hasn’t been much serious debate about foreign policy in the presidential race. The Republicans promise endless war and offer only bluster and B.S....
Trumpist spy and smear op hiding in Wyoming
The Whine and Cheesy Mussolini is a sick joke, but the war on democracy isn’t over. Trump may fade away but the far right...
How to sabotage the federal government
The Trump administration offers us a ceaseless sordid circus of chaos and confusion, which dominates the headlines. Each day is a new episode of...
Fear, despair and gun profiteering
The week before the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, Daniel Defense posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter, showing a little boy sitting cross-legged,...
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”...
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 Queen and Australia’s 1975 rightwing coup
The wall-to-wall coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s death was a brightly colored spectacle, but it was a bit North Korean.
It is curious that the U.S....
Is Putin still the leader of the white Christian world?
Is Putin still the leader of the white Christian world?
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...
You want it, you got it
Many Americans wanted big change this year. A majority of voters in a nationwide Election Day exit poll by Reuters/Ipsos agreed that “America needs...
The student debt mess grew out of Reagan’s war on ‘intellectual...
It was a shock when the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 for student loan borrowers. Biden responded with...
