The Anderson Files

The Battle in Seattle 20 years on

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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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

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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?

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Is Putin still the leader of the white Christian world?

The war on unions rages on

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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?

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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

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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...