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TED RALL
For TED RALL's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2018
Outlook for Democrats in 2020 looks bleak
First: No. It's not too early to discuss the 2020 election. The Iowa caucuses are only a year and a half away. Any presidential hopeful who hasn't begun chatting up donors by now will find it nearly impossible to mount a viable campaign.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2018
The 'thin gray line': Media stifles libel stories
All too often major media outlets shield one another from public scrutiny and accountability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2018
Trump's border policy making private prisons great again
Business is booming for America's vast, secretive, politically connected $5 billion private-prison industry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2018
#MeToo: A cultural workaround to a legal failure
For the most part, #MeToo targets who stand accused in the court of public opinion for criminal acts will never face them in a court of law.
COMMENTARY / World
May 15, 2018
America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people
Americans enjoy the dubious distinction of having a high degree of linguistic diversity it comes to mocking the smart and the educated.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2018
Drones aren't progress; they're a recipe for chaos
Drones are dangerous and should be banned.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2018
U.S. media never ever gives peace a chance
American political culture has devolved from the Vietnam era, when pacifists were marginalized, to a knee-jerk bellicosity in which they don't exist as part of the debate.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2018
Never Again movement need a clear demand
Enthusiasm is necessary to launch a movement. Careful strategizing is required to sustain and grow it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2018
Hiring Bolton is Trump's most dangerous decision yet
No human being on Earth is less qualified to be Trump's national security adviser than John Bolton.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2018
Democrats should run on impeachment
For Trump-hating Democrats, everything hangs upon winning back Congress.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2018
How Democrats could win this fall
To avoid again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Democratic leaders must energize their long-neglected base with a left-leaning platform and promise substantial change.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 26, 2018
Generation Z rides to the rescue
If the teenagers protesting America's insanely stupid gun laws are any indication, the future is in good hands.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2018
America's never-ending struggle: Gun rights versus gun control
There are at least two sides to every issue, and gun ownership in America is no exception.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2018
Democrats hijack the anti-Trump resistance
Leftists want to change the world. They want peace, equal income, equal wealth, equal rights for everybody.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2018
Today's newspapers wouldn't publish the Pentagon Papers
Speaking truth to power is becoming a lost art as corporate interests gain control of editorial content.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 16, 2018
Trump is par for the course for U.S. presidents
Trump is a thieving, lying turd. In that respect, he is as presidential as it gets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2017
Sexism sucks, but blame capitalism more
Most tragic cases of human underachievement are the direct result of economic discrimination.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2017
Will sexual harassment bring an end to America's team politics?
Americans back their party the same way they back their favorite sports team — with automatic, stupid loyalty.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2017
Rape and sexual harassment cut across gender
In the United States, one out of 10 rape victims is male.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2017
How would the U.S. look built from scratch?
Our leaders fail us in innumerable ways, but perhaps their worst sin is to accept things the way they are simply because that's the way they have always been.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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