AltWeeklies Wire
Lay Off Layoffs
U.S. employers hire and fire workers at will. Other countries give workers lifetime employment contracts--and have higher productivity.
Admit It: You Hate the Cops, Too
The Gates incident has illuminated some basic, strange assumptions about our society. Cops think they have a constitutional right to be treated deferentially. And black people think cops are nice to white people. Yeah, well, take it from a white guy: we don't like cops either.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-29-2009 |
Race & Class
Cartoon: Wimpy Harrynew
The Cambridge cop who arrested Professor Gates whined that Gates insulted his "mama." Whatever happened to tough cops?
Lawrence Summers is Googling While America Burnsnew
This animated cartoon mocks Lawrence Summers' remark that we can tell the economy is doing better because fewer people are Googling "economic collapse."
Creating Jobs, Unfortunately, Doesn't Seem to be an Obama Priority
Obama's plan is Reaganomics redux. Give trillions of dollars to big corporations, he argues, and they'll use it to capitalize new ventures, hire workers, and unclog the credit markets. Eventually.
Obama Covers Up a Dozen My Lais
Obama sort of announces kind of an investigation of Bush's biggest single war crime. It's more of the same for a story the media has ignored for six or seven years.
Why Can't Obama See He's the New Robert McNamara?
Like McNamara, Obama doesn't understand a basic truth: you can't successfully manage an inherently doomed premise. Colonialism is dead. Occupiers will never enjoy peace. Neither the Afghans nor the Iraqis nor the Pakistanis will rest until we withdraw our forces.
Why I Miss George W. Bush
I bashed George W. Bush as the worst president ever. I'm not taking that back -- I'm arguing that Obama is even worse.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-29-2009 |
Commentary
Half Healthcare, 100% Dead: Why Obamacare Isn't Selling
There is no true middle ground on healthcare. The most civilized and efficient approach, tried and tested by the rest of the industrialized world, is fully socialized medicine.
Animated Cartoon: Everywhere You Want To Benew
Some people think the government should get involved in the intimate relationship between consumers and their credit cards. Maybe they should think twice before ruining something special.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-13-2009 |
Commentary
Restive Americans Form a Nascent Resistance ... But Will Anyone Notice?
Why the anger? Six months after a new chancellor came to power amid promises of dramatic change, the Reich remains at war. Between the officially unemployed and the long-term dispossessed, 20 percent of North Americans are out of work. Auschwitz is closing and torture has been banned, but dissidents say Adolf Hitler III's reforms are merely window-dressing.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-13-2009 |
Commentary
Taking Time Takes Patience
A what-if satire of what America would look like today if the Allies had lost at D-Day 65 years ago. First of two parts.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-08-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: satire
Mr. Obama: Resign Now
While Americans were whiling away the Memorial Day weekend, President Obama snuck through a terrifying new move toward dictatorship: he wants to subject Americans to "preventive detention."
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
05-27-2009 |
Commentary
Bail Out Your Own Damn Self
Bush and Obama gave $12.2 trillion to Wall Street bankers, but we don't have a damned thing to show for it. It's time to demand the Mother of All Clawbacks.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
05-20-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: bailout, Obama administration
Dems Rule. Next: Excuses for Not Doing Jack.
Democrats are more powerful than ever. How will they justify doing nothing?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
05-12-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party
