Commentary / World Feb 16, 2016
Military cuts can fund Sanders' social programs
by Ted Rall
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders could fund his ambitious social programs by slashing America's bloated military budget.
Editorials Feb 15, 2016
Anger and insecurity threaten to shape, if not determine, the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Commentary / World Nov 24, 2015
Sanders is a socialist and so are you
by Ted Rall
By global standards, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sander's campaign platform is mainstream policy, but in America it's viewed with deep suspicion bred of ignorance.
Commentary / World Nov 24, 2015
Clinton's weaknesses hidden by GOP disarray
by Albert R. Hunt
Hillary Clinton doesn't excite important constituencies — young people, independents, possibly even minority voters — and that could sink her bid for the White House.
Commentary / World Aug 3, 2015
Putin would eat President Trump for lunch
by Leonid Bershidsky
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't make deals with brash, showy businessmen like Donald Trump. He crushes them.
Commentary / World Apr 13, 2015
America's political system is broken
by Ted Rall
The fact that U.S. presidential candidates must adjust their positions to conform to the banal, the uninspired, the illegal, with total disregard for the will or the greater good of the people, demonstrates that the American political system is broken.
World / Politics Jan 19, 2015
Indian spy's role alleged in Sri Lankan president's election defeat
Sri Lanka expelled the Colombo station chief of India's spy agency in the run-up to this month's presidential election, political and intelligence sources said, accusing him of helping the opposition oust President Mahinda Rajapaksa. An Indian foreign ministry spokesman denied any expulsion and said that ...
National / Politics Jan 18, 2015
Okada defeats Hosono to win DPJ presidential election
by Mizuho Aoki and Reiji Yoshida
Following a close runoff against Goshi Hosono, Katsuya Okada is elected president of the Democratic Party of Japan.
Commentary May 3, 2010
Plans for 'small' reactors nudge waste-disposal concerns to fore
by Thomas Seal, Tomohisa Takei and Michael Richardson
Imagine a world in which midsize cities, factories and towns in many countries have their own small nuclear reactors to generate electricity and heat. Some would be in remote locations unconnected to the national grid but others would be in densely populated zones that ...
Editorials Nov 1, 2007
Testifying as a sworn witness in the Diet, former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya admitted that an extraordinarily close relationship existed between him and a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. But he denied any wrongdoing that may bring a criminal charge ...