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Ted Rall, a political cartoonist, is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio and graduated from Fairmont West High School in 1981. His first cartoons were published in the Kettering-Oakwood (OH) Times. He majored in physics at Columbia University's School of Engineering from 1981 until 1984, where he drew cartoons for the Columbia Daily Spectator, Barnard Bulletin and The Jester humor magazine. He was expelled in 1984, between his junior and senior years, for academic and disciplinary reasons. Ted Rall is the author of "Bernie," a biography written with the cooperation of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. "Bernie" is now on sale online and at all good bookstores.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022Only Biden Can Stop This Political Dumpster Fire Redux Even as Biden goes from a Democratic House and Senate to a Republican House and Democratic Senate, he is upgrading his report card like a kid using a pencil to change a D to a B.
Saturday, November 5, 2022Here's What a Progressive Platform Looks Like We're not the world's policeman. We're its deranged serial killer. The U.S. squanders $800 billion a year to invade, occupy, assassinate, intimidate, and bomb people, who mean us no harm, and destroy their infrastructure.
Saturday, July 23, 2022What's Worse Than Inflation? - Fighting Inflation It is, of course impossible to brush away the cynical conclusion that crushing workers and their economic power was and remains a feature of the capitalist system and its stewards in government and finance.
Saturday, July 9, 2022Want Abortion Back? First, Women Have to Die A 2021 study estimates that 140 additional women will die each year in the U.S. due to complications from pregnancies that otherwise would have been terminated in abortions.
Sunday, July 3, 2022Supreme Court To Progressives - Wake U Whether or not the right-wing majority of the Supreme Court is mean and stupid is less important than the fundamental truth that has been revealed - the separation of powers is broken.
Friday, June 3, 2022Our Culture of Violence Comes from the White House Political leaders who normalize violence, especially extrajudicial violence, as acceptable, entertaining and amusing shouldn't be surprised when impressionable young men follow their example and resort to violence themselves.
Saturday, May 21, 2022Biden Is Giving $40 Billion to Ukraine - Here's What That Money Could Do Here The inclination to shovel money at other countries while so many of our own citizens are suffering is nearly impossible to understand.
Friday, May 6, 2022Better a Pretend Fight Than None at All There's only one way to campaign, tell people that you get it, you understand their pain, and you're going to fight like hell to make them feel better.
Saturday, April 23, 2022When It Cares - the US Government Is Extremely Efficient Those who criticize the United States government as inefficient couldn't possibly be more mistaken. Congress and the White House are lightning quick and incredibly generous when it matters.
Saturday, March 26, 2022Ukraine War Lies Debunked It is entirely reasonable to look at the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and decide that it's simply not our business, that neither side is worthy of support.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021Colin Powell, Moral Weakling When you join a gang you're required to prove your loyalty. "You've got high poll ratings," Vice President Dick Cheney told Powell as he ordered him to support the push for war. "You can afford to lose a few points."
Wednesday, September 29, 2021Who Lost Afghanistan? H.R. We spent 20 years fighting people who meant us no harm and couldn't have hurt us even if they had wanted to. What Pentagon leaders don't seem to understand, is why.
Saturday, September 18, 2021Democrats Share the Blame for Afghanistan The 'Democrats - political leaders and voters alike - went far beyond tacit consent. They were actively complicit with the Republicans' war at the time of the invasion and throughout the decades-long occupation of Afghanistan'.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021What Will the Taliban Do? It's Up to Us. The question now is: which Taliban will we and far more importantly, the people of Afghanistan, be dealing with?
Tuesday, August 3, 20219/11 Had Nothing to Do with Afghanistan Better late than never: most Americans now believe that invading Afghanistan was a mistake. But what good does it do to recognize a screw-up unless you learn from it?
Wednesday, July 7, 2021Abandon Afghanistan and Don't Look Back The invasion was a mistake, the occupation was a mistake and so was our propping up of our corrupt puppet regime. We never should have been there in the first place and it has taken 20 years too long to get out.
Sunday, July 4, 2021When Will Politicians Start Caring about People's Actual Problems? What are the two major political parties doing about healthcare costs? Not much. Democrats think we should be grateful for the crappy system we have now. Not that the Republicans are any better.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021What You Do after Work Shouldn't Cost You Your Job The viral video was viewed more than 45 million times. Cooper was internationally shamed as an emblematic wielder of white privilege used to oppress people of color. She was charged with filing a false police report, a misdemeanor.
Monday, May 17, 2021End Military Aid to Israel The only way we can hold Israel accountable for repeated escalations, land grabs, and ongoing brutality is to stop sending the gravy train.
Saturday, May 1, 2021Biden's Left Feint If you don't dig deep Joe Biden appears to be governing as the most liberal president since LBJ. But conservatives needn't worry. Biden is no progressive in centrist's clothing.
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