AltWeeklies Wire
We Are All Soviets Now
Sure, all rules are arbitrary. But once you start breaking your own rules, you undermine the basis of legitimacy for the system you’ve created and hope to perpetuate. If we go back to the basis of nationhood – you have a right to exist if you can carve out borders, defend them, and repel invaders – we unwind the world order that has been in place for nearly half a millennium.
If We Learn Geography, the Terrorists Have Won
Why do people blow up our embassies, bomb our ships, fly planes into our buildings, (try to) blow up their shoes and their underwear? They do it (partly) because we can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing.
The Chechen Connection
Why might a Chechen resent the United States?
Why Does the Pulitzer Prize Committee Hate “Alternative” Editorial Cartooning?
hese are the kinds of choices that I have seen over the last two decades as a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist. These choices were no worse or better than any other year that I can remember. Just same old, same old. And that’s the problem. And that’s the point.
Death to the Pulitzers
The top award in journalism makes journalists miserable.
Lose Your House, Collect $300
How much will the banks have to pay for the foreclosure scandal? What will people whose homes were stolen — there is no other word — receive? Now we know the details...and they're not pretty.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
At SXSW 2013, the Mayors of Brokesville
SXSW is a metaphor for what's going on in the American economy: everyone wants to sell, no one wants to buy.
LGBT: A RIght-Wing Movement
After Stonewall, gays fought for liberation of sexuality and free expression. Now they're fighting to assimilate into monogamism and joining the armies of empire. Gays and straights have lost as a result.
The Quagmire Pattern
Ten Years into the Iraq War, the U.S. Repeats in Syria.
Cash In
Comparing herself to Betty "The Feminine Mystique" Friedan, Sheryl Sandberg wants her book to inspire "Lean In Circles" where women would meet to plot how to climb the corporate ladder and achieve gender parity in the boardroom. At their creepy gatherings, women will learn how to act more boldly, aggressively - more like men. Her idea of how men act, anyway.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-14-2013 |
The War on Women
Does Your Brain Have a Right to Privacy?
As America degenerates into unapologetic authoritarianism, prosecutions for thoughtcrime are increasingly common.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-26-2013 |
Crime & Justice
To Live and Die in L.A.
As an ex-LAPD ex-vet goes on a rampage in Los Angeles, it's worth remembering: if you're going to build your economy on the blood and crushed bones of powerless citizens, it's not the smartest idea to pair disposability of the individual with a cult of militarism that sends millions to war.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-12-2013 |
Race & Class
Terrorists Will Attack Us With Drones. Bet On It.
What's to stop a hostile nation-state from attacking the United States with drones? Nothing. What if terrorists get drones? They will.
Philanthropy is Evil
Bloomberg's billion-dollar gift to a school that doesn't need a penny illustrates the inherent absurdity of capitalism: aggregating so much wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals. It's obscene and morally reprehensible to allow a disproportional share of resources to fall under the control of the arbitrary whims of a few quirky rich dudes.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-29-2013 |
Policy Issues
Murdered by a Prosecutor
The suicide of a tech wunderkind should prompt a general reexamination of America's out-of-control prison sentences.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-14-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: hacking, Aaron Swartz
