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Retrain American Workers

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Ted Rall
More than anything else, American voters worry about the economy. Specifically, they struggle to pay their bills. Those with jobs are scared they will get fired through no fault of their own, perhaps because globalization ships all or part of their sector overseas or artificial intelligence replaces humans. The unemployed and underemployed are angry and terrified that they will never be able to re-enter the workforce. Their fear is well-founded. The average American has three months of savings or less—a number that keeps falling. The average length of unemployment is more than five months—a number that keeps rising. The average worker will be “between jobs” about six times throughout their work life. It happens more to “unskilled” workers. Workers live in a constant state of terror. Trump won reelection in large part because he recognized these fears. He focused on inflation and high prices at a time of raging economic anxiety more than Harris, whose message centered on democracy. As…
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How to Third Party

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Ted Rall
Elon Musk says he is going to start a new third party. Assuming he’s serious, he’ll soon learn that the Democratic-Republican duopoly has made it insanely hard to break into their—emphasis intentional—system. As The New York Times observes, “Launching a new national political party in the United States may be more difficult than sending a man to Mars.” If the world’s richest man is willing to spend enough money over a sustained period of time—to stay smart and focused—it is possible. Ballot access is the most daunting obstacle to expanding American democracy beyond the two major parties. California, the nation’s most populous state, requires a new party to collect 75,000 valid signatures from residents willing to switch parties or register for the first time. A new party’s candidate needs 219,000 signatures collected over a three-month period. In North Carolina, a political party is only recognized after its most recent gubernatorial candidate gets at least 2% of the vote in the…
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What’s Wrong with the Democrats? They Need More Democracy

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Ted Rall
What’s wrong with the Democrats and how can the party be fixed? When an insurgent outsider candidate from the party’s progressive left defeats a moderate endorsed by the establishment, Democratic leaders reject the results and deny the will of their voters. They refuse the infusion of new ideas and tactics every organization needs to evolve. They anger their voter base. They lose elections they should have won. It’s time for Democrats to democratize their party. Democrats’ top-down leadership style is currently being deployed against Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist winner of New York City’s mayoral primary who defeated corporate favorite Andrew Cuomo. The primary results came in over a week ago, yet none of the party’s big guns—Obama, Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Buttigieg, Newsom, Harris, DNC chair Ken Martin—has endorsed Mamdani. Ever the happy warrior, Mamdani says he’s grateful for the kind words he has received from his ideological fellow travelers Bernie, AOC and other members of The Squad. But the…
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NYC to DNC: Drop Dead

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Ted Rall
The people have a message for the establishment: we hate you. We really, really hate you. The upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary—which, in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, makes him the odds-on favorite to win the general election—has profound implications for a national party still reeling from last year’s defeat. It also reveals an unexpected variant of the law of unexpected consequences. When voters despise the elites, the smartest move of the ruling classes is to remain silent. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo watched his comfortable lead fade away over the last few weeks of the campaign. To no one’s surprise, big business, real estate interests, the police and other 900-pound gorillas of the city’s power structure did not relish the prospect of a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist endorsed by Bernie Sanders and AOC taking the reins of city government. As if Mamdani’s demographic profile didn’t freak them out enough— born in Uganda, South…
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We Support Ukraine. Shouldn’t We Be Supporting Iran?

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Ted Rall
In 1984, one of Orwell’s characters explains that “doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” There’s a less elegant, yet equally absurd, way to describe the behavior of a politician who expresses two contradictory beliefs at once. People do what they want, and retrofit their ideological justification after the fact. Israel’s war against Iran provides an unambiguous example of political doublethink. The United States is supporting Israel militarily, Trump called Israel’s attack “excellent,” and members of Congress from both major political parties have issued statements backing the Jewish state. Yet the same U.S. and political leaders support Ukraine. No two wars are identical, yet the circumstances of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Israel-Iran conflict are remarkably analogous. Israel is to Iran as Russia is to Ukraine. Russia claimed that the Ukrainian government’s ideological extremism and increasing ties to anti-Russian regional allies, particularly its professed desire to join NATO, presented…
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Israel: An Idea That No Longer Makes Sense

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Ted Rall
People who support Israel, no matter what it does, tend to hang their hats on a series of familiar arguments. Israel, they say, is the only place Jews can live in security. Critics of Israel want to eliminate Israel. The abolition of Israel would render Israeli Jews homeless (ethnic cleansing), or they would be killed (genocide). Therefore, anyone who criticizes Israel—any anti-Zionist, anyone appalled by Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians—is, by definition, anti-Semitic. Let’s take these assumptions one at a time, beginning with the shibboleth of Israel As Safe Haven. “I think without Israel, there’s not a Jew in the world that’s secure. I think Israel is essential,” President Biden, a strident Zionist, said to Bibi Netanyahu in 2023. He’s wrong. Whatever good Israel provides to Jewish people, it does not include protecting them from physical harm. Roughly half the world’s Jews (7.2 million, three out of four Israelis) live in Israel compared to 8 million in other countries. Between 2015…
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Democrats Must Apologize for Biden Cover-Up

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall reveals how Democrats concealed Joe Biden’s mental and physical health issues, eroding public trust. With polls showing voter distrust, Rall argues the party must apologize and take action, like the Tylenol crisis response, to recover credibility.

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Biden’s Many “Original Sins”

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall reviews “Original Sin,” exposing the Democratic cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, the sabotage of Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris’ disastrous VP selection. This gripping tale of political betrayal paved the way for Trump’s return, with lasting consequences for democracy.

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TMI Show Ep 141: “Biden’s Cancer, Democrats’ Reckoning”

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Ted Rall
LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: This week on The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan confront the stunning news of President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis, a bombshell that escalates calls for the Democratic Party to answer for its handling of his health. The revelation intensifies scrutiny over the party’s cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, which ushered in Trump’s sweeping victory. Ted and Manila dissect the political wreckage, probing how the Democrats’ reluctance to address Biden’s senility shattered public confidence and altered the nation’s course. Why did party leaders prioritize lies over victory? How does Biden’s cancer diagnosis deepen doubts about transparency in governance? With their fearless, incisive approach, the hosts unravel the consequences for the Democratic Party’s credibility and the evolving political arena. This is The TMI Show at its most gripping—delivering unflinching analysis of leadership, health, and accountability. Plus: Joined by guest Todd “Bubba” Horwitz, the show examines the U.S. economy’s current trajectory, marked by…
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