AltWeeklies Wire
Recovery? What Recovery?
Once again, the media is downplaying a blockbuster story—recovery? what recovery?—by dulling it down with a pile of dry, impenetrable statistics.
Next Memorial Day, Remember America's Victims Too
It's bad enough to live in a nation in thrall to the cult of militarism. It's worse to lie about it. And it's insane to believe the lies.
Sluts of America, Arise!
"The Ethical Slut" says it's OKAY to be slutty. "The Monogamy Gap" goes further. It states loudly, brashly—and mostly convincingly—that while monogamy is right for some people, it's wrong for most. Which makes monogamism a form of bigotry not only based on a lie, but like other forms of discrimination, downright bad for soci
Tags: sexual freedom, politics of sex
Obama Leads From the Back
Obama's decision to come out in favor of gay marriage is classic Dick Morris-style "leading from the back."
A Harsh Lesson at Columbia
As Obama brings his rock-the-youth-vote campaign to the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, he wants to be photographed in a sea of adoring youthful faces. And yet, through incompetence or cynical calculus, he's throwing some of the most inspiring, hard-working students in America under the bus.
Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2012
The Pravda-ization of the News
Try as they may to make the news as boring as possible, U.S. media outlets keep churning out hilarious "news" stories. Hardly a day passes without the release of some piece whose content is so ridiculous, its tone so absurdly credulous, that it makes us feel as if we live in a bizarre reincarnation of the propaganda-soaked Soviet Union.
Tough Politicians Are Killing Cops
Violent crime in general is decreasing. But more cops are being killed in the line of duty. One reason: tough sentencing laws that make shooting a police officer a rational decision.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-12-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: police shootings
We Have Found the "One Bad Apple" And It Is Us
To the Afghans, Sgt. Bales didn't kill those 16 people in Kandahar province. The U.S. did. Obama did. We did. After all, if we hadn't invaded and occupied Afghanistan, Bales wouldn't have been there in the first place.
Susan Collins Murdered Afghans. Now She's a Moderate
Lefties were against the Afghanistan War ten years ago. We were ignored or mocked. Now that the polls have shifted against the war, it's a little galling to hear warmongers like Susan Collins talk about Karzai's corruption and Afghanistan's unique history as though she were reporting information that just came to light.
Tags: Afghanistan War, Susan Collins
The Case for Shiftlessness
We've been programmed to believe that the only way to get money is to earn it. Improvements in workplace efficiency, however, are increasing unemployment and making work-for-pay obsolete.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-07-2012 |
Business & Labor
We Want Jobs. They Care About Body Parts and Kiddie-Poos
As lead stories about body disposal and rearview cameras demonstrate, we don't care about two-party electoral politics because two-party electoral politics don't care about us or our concerns.
Another Obama Sellout on Housing
This mortgage settlement with the banks over robo-signing is different, claims the White House. "No more lost paperwork, no more excuses, no more runaround," HUD secretary Shaun Donovan said February 9th. The new standards will "force the banks to clean up their acts." Don't bet on it.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-23-2012 |
Housing & Development
Zuckerberg: The $6,000 a Minute Man
Until recently Americans tended to accept the argument that seven- and eight-digit salaries were justified by the value top executives added to the bottom line. Visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs earned billions in profits for shareholders. They were entrepreneurs. They took risks that changed the world. They deserved to rake in the rewards. People began reassessing this view after the collapse of global capitalism which began in 2008 and--despite the Obama Administration's desperate attempts to cook the unemployment numbers--continues to spin out of control.
Taxing the Rich Won't Help the Poor
Would increasing taxes on the wealthy do much to close the gap between rich and poor—to level the economic playing field? Probably not.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-31-2012 |
Policy Issues
Sympathy for Newt Gingrich
Liberals join their rightist counterparts in snickering about Craig's "wide stance" and Gingrich's request for an open marriage. The effect is to denigrate gays, lesbians and other sexually marginalized and oppressed people.
