A slightly longer version of this piece originally appeared in P.O.V. magazine in 1999: THE KARAKORAM HIGHWAY: The World’s Most Dangerous Roadway by Ted Rall On your standard map it’s a thous...
NATO came to Nurat on July 11th. There were seventy soldiers, 45 of them members of the American troop complement that has occupied Afghanistan since the fall of 2001 and 25 members of Hamid Karz...
https://rall.com/2008/08/06/the-bad-war-afghanistan-seven-years-later
Originally published in Men’s Journal magazine in 2008: High in the remotest mountains of the remotest province of the remotest nation in central Asia, a breathtaking lake is poised to unleash ...
https://rall.com/2008/06/04/under-the-sword-of-damocles-2008-essay
Susan Jacoby The Age of American Unreason Pantheon Books, 384 pp., $26.00 “How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?” a British newspaper headline asked about the Americans who voted for George W...
https://rall.com/2008/02/17/book-review-the-age-of-american-unreason-by-susan-jacoby
War Powers Peter Irons How The Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution Metropolitan Books, $25, 304 pp. The United States Constitution can be vexingly vague—the placement of a comma separ...
https://rall.com/2005/08/07/book-review-war-powers-by-peter-irons
When voters went to the polls on November 7, 1972, they possessed more than enough information to pick the right president. Republican incumbent Richard Nixon had reneged on his 1968-winning prom...
https://rall.com/2005/06/24/finally-you-admit-we-were-right-an-iraq-victory-dance
In February, before thousands of bombs bought with your payroll deductions killed thousands of Iraqis for no good reason, one Neil Pollack despoiled these pages to insult my worries about the loo...
https://rall.com/2003/05/23/i-told-you-so-the-collapse-of-u-s-occupied-iraq
The following piece was commissioned for Gear magazine—which went out of business while I was in Tajikistan doing the work. It did appear in Drill magazine, which also went under, but not befor...
“It’ll be temporary.” They’re the three most frightening words in the English language. Still, what did I know? My on-again, off-again girlfriend looked at me like she really meant it. So...
https://rall.com/1998/11/05/roach-motel-lowdown-living-in-california
“Start me up.” – The Rolling Stones, 1981 It all began as an innocent attempt to while away a stormy night during midterms. According to a former classmate who, like most of the sources for...
https://rall.com/1997/11/05/start-up-murder-and-millennial-madness-at-a-gen-x-computer-company