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Democrats often ask progressives: how can you say that there’s no difference between Democrats and the Republican party? While there are differences of tone, on the most important issues th...

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Late last year, I interviewed Bernie Sanders while working on my biography “Bernie.” I asked him if he planned to reduce the defense budget if elected president. “We will take a hard look a...

https://rall.com/2016/02/08/bernie-sanders-cut-defense-to-pay

Democrats ridicule Republicans for their top two presidential frontrunners, the blowhard Donald Trump and the somnolent ignoramus and proto-fascist Ben Carson. But when you stop to think abou...

https://rall.com/comic/sometimes-you-feel-like-electing-a-nut

Even as symbolic reform of the NSA, the new USA Freedom Act falls woefully short of what is needed. Unfortunately, many Americans will settle for this and move on to another issue. The post SYNDI...

https://rall.com/2015/06/02/freedom-act-sucks

Edward Snowden has been vindicated. This week marks the first time that a court – a real court, not a sick joke of a kangaroo tribunal like the FISA court, which approves every government reque...

https://rall.com/2015/05/08/syndicated-column-the-nsa-loses-in-court-but-the-police-state-rolls-on

Publication Date: August 25, 2015 Order at Amazon! As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Why did...

https://rall.com/2015/05/05/snowden

Between the NSA, license plate scanners and skies full of drones, there will soon be no place for anyone who opposes an oppressive dictator to hide. So it’s only a matter of time before som...

https://rall.com/comic/coming-soon

The United States government claims that there’s a distinction between the NSA’s wholesale collection of information by and about individuals and governments overseas, versus the Chinese ...

https://rall.com/comic/bluster-bomb

Between the NSA, nosy workers and ex-mistresses who surreptitiously record your racist phone rants and release them to the gossip media, Americans’ thoughts are no longer their own…not ev...

https://rall.com/comic/the-lives-of-not-others

The Snowden revelations about the NSA have switched things up: Now, if you DON’T think the government is spying on you, you’re crazy. The post A New Home for the Tinfoil Hat first appear...

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