The Anderson Files
The Battle in Seattle 20 years on
Twenty years ago, activists gave us an adrenaline rush. Tens of thousands of people flooded downtown Seattle, challenging the global economic order and yelling...
Our mirror image of ISIS
This election year has been so peculiar that it is easy to overlook some unusual events.
At the United Nations, a prominent official lambasted a...
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...
Paul Ryan wants all of us to live in Kansas
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants his trickle-down tax “reform” passed this year. Speaking before
the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) annual convention recently, he said, ...
Can decency beat depravity?
Every 80 seconds, someone in America dies from COVID-19. Across the world, people are horrified by the American response to the pandemic. Beppe Severgnini,...
Big change or stability?
Democrats are divided over whether to support a presidential candidate who proposes big structural change for the working class majority or a candidate who...
What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care
The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...
Paying attention
Trump may not have seemed like a “normal” Republican when he ran for president, but he now has a 90 percent job approval rating...
Is Putin still the leader of the white Christian world?
Is Putin still the leader of the white Christian world?
The war on unions rages on
On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The Washington Post...
Democracy or unfettered capitalism?
The constant chaos promoted by Trump is exhausting. But that’s the point. It is designed to create so much confusion and anxiety that you...
Lesson after Amazon union defeat: Keep fighting
The union defeat at a giant Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a big blow to the labor movement. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a surprise...
