Ted Rall

Where did the weapons go for which the Pentagon gets trillions? The American people are constantly being told that they can't have nice things like healthcare because they are too expensive.

In a bellicose speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate Iran.

Rall suggests that perhaps our national priorities are out of whack, though it might be a better world if they were this openly explained. It would also be a better country if someone, anyone spoke this plainly to Dear Leader. However, it would be difficult to explain why funds that Congress approved for medical research and health services were being redirected to the Defense Department.

It's that time again, and I know you're excited: time to start handicapping the 2028 presidential campaign.

Collective guilt, then and now. When the Nazi regime was toppled in 1945, there were those, including many Germans, who felt that the country bore a collective guilt for the atrocities that were committed.

Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who

Donald Trump has worn down the nation with an endless stream of lies and scandals that has compelled many Americans to tune out politics.

Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter is sad for America.

When I was your age, I walked through gallons of tear gas. For Americans on the Left, especially Boomers and Gen Xers who remember the actual

Imagine if we decided to stop fighting wars and spent that money on health care instead.