I've been following Ted Rall's work, on and off, from the other side of the world, for what must be over 20 years. I can't think of many cartoonists who have maintained such a consistently high standard for so long. Indeed I can't think of any who have been around so long and have so successfully avoided falling into lazy recycling of old tropes. His sacking by the LA Times is a brazen admission that they are happy to be seen as Pravda plus celebrity clickbait.

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