The Anderson Files
Public banking in North Dakota
North Dakota is one of the three most conservative states in the United States, according to Gallup. Wyoming is number one, with self-identified conservatives...
Sanders, Warren and the art of media distraction
If you follow politics regularly, you have reason to be angry about something every day. Trump deliberately provokes liberal outrage constantly with petty and...
Lessons from rednecks and dumb bunnies
It was truly inspiring. Thousands of people sang and danced in West Virginia’s state capitol building in a victory celebration. They chanted: “Who made...
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....
Social solidarity or culture war
We are supposed to be in the middle of a “culture war” but it is really a conflict about how we define social solidarity...
German coup plotters borrow from QAnon, Jan. 6
On Dec. 7, some 3,000 German police officers and special forces raided 150 locations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as in...
U.S. being treated like a developing nation
You know the old story of U.S.-based multinational corporations moving plants to the developing world, where they have a more “business-friendly,” unregulated environment under...
Is Bernie a socialist, a commie or just a New Deal...
Back in 2016, it seemed unlikely that Bernie Sanders would win the Democratic nomination, much less the presidency. So there wasn’t as much of...
Helping heal the wounds of division
The massive 10-part PBS documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick starts by saying the war was “begun in...
Climate apartheid
The world is facing the prospect of “climate apartheid,” where “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the...
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...
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...
