The Anderson Files
Can Biden be FDR and stop the Trumpist chaos?
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) said of Joe Biden, “Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.”...
Is this an extinction-level event for American labor?
The labor movement has been reviving in recent years but now it faces stormy weather with the presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court...
Triptych and Trump
The uproar over Russian meddling in the U.S. election diverts our attention from the larger phenomenon of Russia’s support for far right movements in...
Can democracy survive if political violence is normalized?
When White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, she declined to offer any comment, saying...
Self-deception and hidden agendas during the pandemic
The pandemic is challenging governments around the world. However, the Trump administration’s response stands out as monumentally incompetent and corrupt. There was plenty of...
A Colorado universal health care solution
It is unlikely that any significant health care reforms will be coming out of Washington, D.C. any time soon. Meanwhile, there’s a growing under-reported...
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,...
Will dark money defeat progressive change?
“The one-sided class war of the last 40 years is becoming two-sided,” leftwing philosopher Noam Chomsky recently declared. He is encouraged by the many...
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...
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....
Trump’s war on workers
Trump proclaims himself the savior of the screwed-over “forgotten men and women” of the working class. Every day, he hogs the media spotlight with...
Ukraine crisis: fascist menace and a looming war
On Jan. 30, the Congress of Russian Intellectuals published an open letter demanding that the Kremlin avoid starting an “immoral, irresponsible, and criminal” war...
