For Ted Rall's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
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. At this ...
All too often major media outlets shield one another from public scrutiny and accountability.
Business is booming for America's vast, secretive, politically connected $5 billion private-prison industry.
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.
Americans enjoy the dubious distinction of having a high degree of linguistic diversity it comes to mocking the smart and the educated.
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.
Enthusiasm is necessary to launch a movement. Careful strategizing is required to sustain and grow it.
No human being on Earth is less qualified to be Trump's national security adviser than John Bolton.
For Trump-hating Democrats, everything hangs upon winning back Congress.
