AltWeeklies Wire
Gun Control Talk Is Cheap. A Sane Mental Health System Is Not.
Setting aside the caveat that we still don't know why it happened, the big guns/crazy young white guy dynamic leads to two obvious policy prescriptions: gun control and improving access to mental health care. Post-Aurora, we're seeing a lot of the former, including calls for numerical limits on ammo sales—but relatively few of the latter.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-27-2012 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Gun Control
Why We're Apathetic: Obama and Romney Ignore #1 Campaign Issue
Ignoring the elephant in the room, neither Obama nor Romney have put forth credible plans for getting the unemployed back to work or getting raises for those who still have jobs—and forget about underemployment.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-19-2012 |
Commentary
Customer Service Is A Right
It may not be as important as habeas corpus, but good access to customer service reps is a right—especially when a company is extracting billions from the economy, i.e. us.
What Next for Occupy?
It's less important to guess whether Occupy has a future than to examine how a movement with widespread public support from left and right alike devolved from nearly 2000 public encampments to its current situation: marginalization and cooption.
Executive Privilege: Another Presidential Lie
This is Obama's first use of "executive privilege," but both by historical and current legal standards it is radically overreaching.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-29-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: executive privilege
'Good Stewards of the Environment'new
The U.S. Navy insists that they can protect marine mammals from the harm caused by warships using active sonar in the waters around Hawaii. What if they're wrong?
Maui Time |
Anthony Pignataro |
06-29-2012 |
Environment
Where's Obama's Legacy?
Is Obama a wimp? Or were liberals wrong about him—was the president an establishment conservative from the start?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-22-2012 |
Commentary
Pols Need an Education - From Overseas
Public education is mirroring American society overall: a tiny island of haves surrounded by a vast ocean of have-nots. The idea neither party is willing to consider, is to replace localized control of education—funding, administration and curricula—with centralized federal control, as is common in Europe and around the world.
Tags: Education
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.
Three Douchebags Who Shook the Earth
Will Douchenet change the world? Don't bet against it.
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.
