Meritocracy is a toxic fiction that backs up a misguided assumption that anyone deserves more of anything than anyone else, argues TED RALL
Category - Commentary
Ted Rall: Why You Can’t Bomb Your Way to Peace in Afghanistan
Bomb toward peace? Please. TED RALL enumerates all the reasons it will never, ever work.
Mihai Alisie: Signposts for The Crypto Renaissance
Ted Rall: How Kavanaugh Punkd the #MeToo Movement
Ted Rall: What Liberal Democrats Don’t Get About Brett Kavanaugh
Ted Rall: On Defamation, Libel and the Media Conspiracy of Silence
Private Prisons: Finally, an Enemy the Left and Right Must Equally Despise
Ted Rall: Trump’s Handling of Asylum Seekers Is Awful. And Democrats Made It Worse
Ben Goertzel: These 12 Google DeepMind Patent Apps Should Scare Us All
Who Will Do Something About the Looming Gen X Retirement Crisis?
INFOGRAPHIC: The Dark Side of Crypto
Ben Goertzel: Here’s How Sophia the Robot Works
Open Data and Environment Protection: Here’s the Connection
Why Do Americans Insult Intelligent People?
Ted Rall: Why Won’t The Media Ever Give Peace a Chance?
Ted Rall: Dishonest John Bolton Must Be Stopped. Here’s Why
Ted Rall: On Democrats, Special Elections and Pipe Dreams [cartoon]
Superhero Science: How Humans Will Someday Get Superhero Vision
Ted Rall: No Impeachment Agenda, No Midterm Win
What Should Replace the Bald Eagle as the Symbol of America?
The Problem with Monopsony [cartoon]
Is There a Plot to Make Americans Obese? [cartoon]
Democrats Could Win This Fall, But Only If They Do This …
Lady Bird Revisited: Now You Know Why It Sucks So Bad
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Paperless Office ..
Russian Bots in Glass Houses: Look Inward, America [cartoon]
Alright, Disney. Enough with the Fart Jokes Already …
Forget You, Millennials: Gen Z Is America’s Only Hope Now
Skydio: You Can’t Run and You Can’t Hide [cartoon]
What’s So Weird About Liberals Defending the FBI, CIA and NSA? [cartoon]
Maybe Those Gun Rights People Do Have A Point. Then Again …
Ted Rall: In Which The Democratic Party Sucks Up To The FBI [cartoon]
The Humanity Star: A for Creativity, F for Math
WATCH: Here Are The 13 Best Rock Songs of All Time
Is There a #MeToo Movement for Victims of Predatory Capitalists?
Ted Rall: Why Do Democrats Put Up with Trump’s Trolling?
Technology Isn’t The Only Thing Teachers Need To Worry About …
Ted Rall: Is A Little Less American Evil Really Too Much To Ask For?
Don’t Get Too Excited About Doug Jones, Dems [cartoon]
With Trump, It’s All About the Art of the Heel [cartoon]
Ted Rall: The Great Immigration Debate [cartoon]
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas: Forget the Flips. The Big Idea Here Is Balance
Donald Trump’s Hateful Policies Do Accomplish One Thing …
Ted Rall: Donald Trump’s Nastiness Is Par for the Presidential Course
The Post: Why Today’s Media Wouldn’t Publish The Pentagon Papers
Ted Rall: What Michael Wolff’s New Trump Book Reveals About Hillary Clinton
Sure, Sexism Sucks. Here’s What Sucks Even More
Sorry Sen. Warner, You’re Wrong: Trump Has Nothing to Fear in Firing Robert Mueller
CARTOON: Here’s The Real Reason Why Roy Moore Won’t Repent
Ted Rall: What Are The Odds of Trump’s Presidency Lasting Another Year?
TED RALL: Men On The Edge of A Nervous Breakdown [cartoon]
Federal Government Shutdown: Are US Project Managers Ready?
Donald Trump vs Obama: Why Doesn’t He Just Move On?
David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde: Spy vs Counterspy Never Looked So Good
How To Undermine a Cabinet [cartoon]
Dennis D. McDonald: Here’s One for The Reluctant Data Janitor
Ted Rall: On Sexual Harassment and The End of Team Politics
Ted Rall: On Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein and the No-Win Proposition of Victimhood
Ted Rall: It’s Easy To Get Fired If You’re Not Harvey Weinstein [cartoon]
Ted Rall: Better a Pedophile than a Liberal, Right? [cartoon]
Haunted by a Family History of Alzheimer’s, Bill Gates Personally Invests $50M Toward a Cure
Ted Rall: On Kevin Spacey and The Strange, Dark Politics of Sexual Harrassment
Could Seatbelts Harm You In Event of a Car Accident?
America’s Two-Party System, Explained [cartoon]
NYC Terror Attack: One More Reason to Fix The City’s Bike Path Issues
Hey, Trump: Hillary’s and Bernie’s Twitter Followings Are Nearly Half Fake, Too!
Ted Rall: Why Do Harvey Weinstein’s Alleged Victims Sign NDAs? [cartoon]
John Kelly: On Respect and the Unlikely Compromise
It’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, American Style
Ted Rall: Rape and Sexual Harrassment Happen to #MenToo
Ted Rall: Good Luck with That, George W. [cartoon]
This Is Goodbye, Twitter: It Was (Sort of) Fun While It Lasted …
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049: Best Sequel Ever?
Girls in the Boy Scouts? Sorry, But It Just Feels Weird
Ted Rall: We Used to Build Things, Remember? [cartoon]
John Barry: Don’t Call Pres. Donald Trump A Liar. Call Him This Instead …
What Would Happen If We Took America Down To Studs and Started Over from Scratch
Here’s What Would Happen If The USS Alabama Fired Just One Nuke at North Korea
Ted Rall: Why The Pledge of Allegiance is Anti-American
Ted Rall: On Betsy Devos, Title IX and the Weird, Alternative Collegiate Universe
Mark W. Kaelin: If Your Android Phone Is Sluggish, Try This
When Robots Rise: Here’s The Absolute Worst Case Scenario
Ted Rall: Tame Protests Don’t Work. Here’s What Will [commentary]
Dear NASA: Here Is How You Save Yourself from Jim Bridenstine
Ted Rall: Donald Trump Is Screwing Over Dreamers, But Barack Obama Is Complicit, Too
Ted Rall: And The Latest Donald Trump Outrage Is …
Brian Blum: What If You Knew Your Death Date?
Space Race: How OneWeb Plans To Dominate Satellite Internet Service
Is Trump Doomed? Yes. But Not Because He’s A Nazi Sympathizer
Don’t Remove Confederate Statues. Redesign Them Like This and Watch What Happens
Give Peace A Chance, Liberals: Buy A Gun, Learn How To Use It
Ted Rall: Mueller vs Trump vs Mueller, Oh My!
LA Times Lawyer to Court: This Isn’t A Case About ‘Truth’
Clear, Brilliant and Bittersweet: Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘After the Storm’ [review]
On Tesla Model 3 Futures and Ford Model T Dreams
Ted Rall: Why This Progressive Thinks Democrats Are A Lost Cause
Ted Rall: I Represented Myself In Court Against the LA Times. Here’s What Happened
Ted Rall: Why Mainstream Media’s Trump Coverage Is Failing Us [cartoon]
Astrophysicist Dick Davies: Last of Caltech’s Late Great Beat Scientists
