Ted Rall

Right-wingers dug up an obscure Victorian-era “zombie” law from 1873, the Comstock Act, to try to get the abortion pill banned at the same time liberals tried to use equally obscure Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, passed during Reconstruction in 1868, to kick Trump off the ballot.

The U.S. has the world's second-largest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal, exclusive, comprehensive command over the oceans, perfect strategic geography, nearly a thousand military bases overseas and is by far the biggest dealer of weapons and ammunition. And it uses them a lot: We have been at war throughout nearly all of our history since independence from Britain.

A culture running on performance-enhancing drugs now runs on fumes.

I didn't question the incoming Biden administration when they rolled back the Trump era's stricter border control policies in 2021. There's nothing unusual about reversing a previous president's approach, especially when he belongs to the other party and the policy in question is roundly criticized.

It's a bad sign when even the GOP's wingnuts have their doubts about Arizona's abortion laws.

Israel’s prime minister confronts his addiction.

The National Guard? On a university campus? Can't think of a single problem.

It's too bad we can't monetize censorship, because we truly live in a golden age of speech suppression.

There are more Democrats than Republicans, more liberals than conservatives, more progressives than MAGAs. But you'd never know that from looking at our politics. From abortion to the minimum wage to war, the Right wins the important arguments.

Does Netanyahu have an upper limit on self-justification?