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For TED RALL's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2017
Why admitting girls into the Boy Scouts feels weird
Girls in the Boy Scouts makes almost as much sense as allowing Republicans to vote in a Democratic primary.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2017
Negative obituaries prove Hugh Hefner was right
Critical obituaries of Hugh Hefner show puritan values still resonate loudly in America.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2017
Above the law on college campuses
America's institutions of higher education should follow the same standards of justice as the rest of the nation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2017
Obama betrayed the 'dreamers' before Trump did
U.S. President Barack Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, including protection for the dreamers, in his 2008 campaign, but he never delivered.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2017
Why Donald Trump is doomed (and no it's not the Nazi thing)
Trump's defense of Nazis and Klansmen isn't a radical departure from the GOP political norm. Where he's gone off the rails by American standards is a question of style.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2017
After Charlottesville: If you fire a fascist, you are a fascist
It's time to overthrow the millions of little Hitlers who think that issuing a paycheck turns their employees into slaves subject to thought control.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2017
Obsession with Trump shows authoritarianism has arrived
Americans are divided along party lines, but Trump has brought them together in one respect: He's making everyone feel anxious by creating a constant atmosphere of crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2017
The Democrats are a lost cause
As long as the Democratic Party's leadership is owned by big-monied special interests, it will never give the people what they want and need.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2017
Democrats' Russian obsession makes them look dumb
The Democrats are right about one thing: There's lots of smoke. They're wrong about the type of fire.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2017
The biggest scam in American politics
It's hard to think of a country that has less to fear than the United States. So why is its military spending so high?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2017
What do the Democrats want? No one knows
Once the party of the working man, the Democrats have sold out to corporate America.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2017
Trump voters' message: we exist
Donald Trump hasn't lifted a finger to help Rust Belters as president, but he did far more than the Democratic Party's elites during the election when he acknowledged their existence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2017
Why I'm still happy Hillary lost
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's dangerous flaws, the world is still better off without Hillary Clinton leading America.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2017
Sheryl Sandberg: world's most annoying person
It's that time of year again: Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is telling Americans how to live their lives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2017
Time for a real passenger bill of rights
Americans have been mad as hell. Now, it seems, they're not going to take it anymore.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2017
Why Trump is so hated by liberals
Pick a Trump outrage that's got liberals in a tizzy and you can find a similar policy they had no problem with when it was authored by Obama.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2017
Five things Democrats could do to save party
Republicans could come out of the Trump debacle stronger than they went in if Democrats don't act to avoid political irrelevance.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2017
Is America's Democratic Party destined to split?
Growing friction between liberal Democrats and the party's center-right corporate leadership caste could spur a divorce.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2017
Dems: win by out-Trumping Trump
The Democrats can only succeed against Trump by getting louder, meaner, more over the top and beating him at his own game.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2017
Don't count out a GOP impeachment of Trump
Whoever takes credit for bringing down a feared and reviled leader will rid themselves of a rival and reap rewards up to and including the highest office in the land.
'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.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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