DMZ America with Ted Rall & Scott Stantis

Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis bring all of the issues into crystal-clear focus from their vastly different political perspectives. From culture wars to Facebook to "Let's Go, Brandon!" to the coarsening of America . And what the Hell is wrong with Virginia?!?!?!  Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scot...

Conservative cartoonist Scott Stantis and progressive cartoonist Ted Rall go even longer this time! Sparks fly over whether Colin Powell was a hero or a zero, Ted offers a primer on the internal politics of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, Scott calls for a new Cold War against China while Ted deplores the old one against the Soviet Union, and Ted and Scott trade ideological places on wheth...

Political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis go long this time. Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs because they hate them. But why now? Katie Couric admits that she ran interference for Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the Colin Kaepernick story. What does it mean, who will remember? Alden Capital, notorious for destroying newspapers, has come for the Chicago Tribune chain and it's the e...

Leftie cartoonist Ted bungles the opening but circles back after rightie cartoonist Scott gives advice to a Democratic Party facing major electoral challenges. Then it's off to the Taiwan crisis and what you need to know: A little history lesson on how did we get here? How can there be two Chinas? Will mainland China go to war? Will we? And a look at how we'd look at Taiwan if we were Ch...

If you had a chance to travel back in time and kill the Internet before it ever started, would you do it? In a grindingly ironic conversation, Scott and Ted ON THEIR PODCAST ON THE INTERNET discuss the pluses and mostly minuses of the invasive and often corrosive effects of the World Wide Web.  Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott...

From the left, political cartoonist Ted Rall discusses the dysfunctional political climate that gave us the ridiculous debt ceiling crisis with, from the right, political cartoonist Scott Stantis. Revelations in the Wall Street Journal about Facebook internal research and the company's attempt to appeal to young children sparks a soulful discussion about everything from getting rid of your lo...

Ted and Scott discuss the American media's latest obsession with an attractive Caucasian  dead woman. Also, our national disregard for the plight of tens of thousands of Haitian refugees. Plus, the scare-mongering of John Bolton as neo-conservatives scramble to stay relevant.  Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis.  Twi...

President Joe Biden delivers his first speech to the United Nations, prompting political cartoonist Ted Rall and Scott Stantis to ponder what comes next in foreign policy under Biden and for the foreseeable future? Ted pushes back against Scott's description of China as a "threat." Scott surprises with his updated take on 1930s-style isolationism. Border patrol goons use whips to co...

It's an ADD episode where Ted and Scott discuss everything from SCOTUS political hacks to Covid-19 booster shots to outlawing drones. Also we ask the question: where do you buy YOUR submarines? Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis.  Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrall Web: Rall.com

Cartoonists and best friends Ted Rall and Scott Stantis react to Biden's vaccine mandate and suggest ways to talk to the resistant. AOC's controversial dress at the Met Gala prompts the question: is it possible to affect change from within the system? And there might be some cursing. Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott S...

How did the terrorist attacks on American soil on 9/11 result in Donald Trump and the rise of totalitarianism in the United States? Ted and Scott explain it for you. Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis.  Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrall Web: Rall.com

It's another free-wheeling discussion between right-wing cartoonist Scott Stantis and left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall. It's another 9/11 week—what, if anything, have we learned? Scott responds to a listener. Ted and Scott clash on climate change: Ted thinks we're doomed because it's probably too late to save ourselves and Scott supports incremental action based on self-interest:...

Ted and Scott take surprising views of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to decide the Texas abortion ban. They also take more shots at President Biden for his Trump -like doubling down on Afghanistan speech.  Support the show The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis.  Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrall Web: Rall.com

It's a full plate of debate and discussion between political cartoonists Scott Stantis (on the Right) and Ted Rall (on the Left) as they confront the closing days of America's chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, the rise of an Afghan terrorist group that makes the Taliban look warm and fuzzy, and the issue of what to do (or not to) when a cartoon deadline looms. Plus: school is back in ses...

Political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis are aghast at the obvious failing cognitive abilities of America's chief executive and Commander-In-Chief as he fends off media queries about American incompetence in the face of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. What can or, more to the point, should be done about our befuddled commander-in-chief? Riffing off personal experience, Ted...

President Joe Biden's poll numbers are falling along with the desperate Afghans falling off fleeing American airplanes evacuating Kabul. How does his Saigon moment affect the remainder of Biden's presidency? Political cartoonists Scott Stantis of The Chicago Tribune and Ted Rall of WhoWhatWhy.org, both with Andrews McMeel Syndication and Counterpoint, draw upon Ted's experience in A...

Hosts Scott Stantis and Ted Rall go deep into the meaning and effects of the shocking victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Scott is reminded of his mortified 16-year-old self watching the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong. Ted, who had predicted this ending since before the U.S. invasion, speaks from deep personal knowledge about the people and culture of Afghanistan and what we can expect next.  S...

Conservative political cartoonist Scott Stantis and progressive political cartoonist Ted Rall download about the resignation of New York soon-to-be-ex Governor Andrew Cuomo and Democratic guilt over Bill Clinton.  Also on the agenda is whether deficits really matter when the spending is on infrastructure or something they call infrastructure.  Scott and Ted talk about the rapidly deteriorating war...

DMZ America is the podcast in which two fierce partisans of the left and the right, both of them controversial political cartoonists, face off and try to find sanity in an increasingly insane world. In this, their Second Episode Ted Rall of Sputnik News and The Wall Street Journal and Scott Stantis of The Chicago Tribune talk about President Biden's extension of the possibly unconstitutional...

DMZ America is the podcast in which two fierce partisans of the left and the right, both of them controversial political cartoonists, face off and try to find sanity in an increasingly insane world. In their Inaugural Episode Ted Rall of Sputnik News and The Wall Street Journal and Scott Stantis of The Chicago Tribune talk about New York City decision to impose vaccine mandates on people who want...