The Anderson Files
Despairing Johnstown workers and the election
Anxiety, dread, fear. Almost 70% of Americans said the presidential election is a substantial source of stress, according to the American Psychological Association’s Stress...
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...
Free market fundamentalism and COVID-19
The world turns upside down a couple times a day. As I write this, President Trump has caught COVID-19 and is benefiting from “socialized...
Pandemic profiteering
More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and more than 32 million have lost their jobs. During the first quarter of 2020 alone,...
Medicare for All is a solution for the pandemic crisis
It gets tiresome staying at home (if you are able to) or wearing a mask and social distancing when encountering other humans. So you...
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,...
Biden and a progressive future
Hope just means another world is possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. — Rebecca Solnit
For many...
Fascist spectacle on the American democratic stage
In 2017, Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon called Robert Kuttner out of the blue about forming an “economic nationalist” alliance of the right and...
The untold story of Mexico’s COVID-19 strikes
Let me introduce you to Susana Prieto, a hero of the pandemic you haven’t heard about. She is a longtime Mexican labor lawyer and...
Black lives, the pandemic and unions
The gruesome and public extra-judicial murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop sparked a gigantic wave of protests, which surprised everyone. This is...
Police reform and the rebirth of hope
Multi-racial crowds of people are rallying across the country in the middle of a pandemic against police violence.
The number of white people demonstrating is...
Rage, despair, hopelessness… and the election
We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hammer
In the 1960s, black people demanded to...
