
DMZ America with Ted Rall & Scott Stantis
Left-wing political cartoonist Ted Rall and right-wing political cartoonist Scott Stantis cut the BS out of today's news, politics and pop culture.
Episodes
199 episodes
DMZ America Podcast Ep 198: “The Boy/Man Problem: Too Much Empathy?”
In this episode of the DMZ America podcast, hosts Ted Rall and Scott Stantis dive into "the boy/man problem," spotlighting the cultural, economic, and educational challenges facing boys and men. We kick off with Elon Musk’s "Joe Ro...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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1:01:13

DMZ America Podcast Ep 197: “Trump’s Iron Fist: ICE Nabs Khalil, Tourist”
In this important episode of the DMZ America Podcast, hosts Ted Rall and Scott Stantis dive into the escalating fears of authoritarianism under Trump, spotlighting the chilling ICE arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card-holding Palestinian act...
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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55:36

DMZ America Podcast Ep 196: Dem Dum Dems
In this episode of the DMZ America Podcast, hosts Ted Rall and Scott Stantis dive into the Democrats' alarming ineffectiveness and inability to push back against President Trump, a weakness laid bare by Congressional Democrats’ limp reaction to...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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58:36

DMZ America Podcast Ep 195: Dems Finally Admit Biden Was Senile
We've been telling you the truth for years. But we were denounced and insulted and ridiculed.Now that Biden is out, Democrats who repeatedly dismissed claims of his dementia are shifting their stance, prompted by mounting evidence and p...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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39:21

DMZ America Podcast Ep 194: Is This 1933?
Hitler was elected democratically and consolidated his dictatorship after seizing power. Donald Trump just won a fair election. Is he plotting to subvert American democracy?There are signs that suggest “yes.” Presidents may...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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1:08:06

DMZ America Podcast Ep 193: Democrats Say Resistance Is Futile
House Leader Jeffries sounds like a Vichy Democrat who has given up. “What leverage do we have?” he asked reporters at his weekly news conference on Friday. “They control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It’s their government.”...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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49:32

DMZ America Show Ep 192: Trump Trashes Checks and Balances
Is this the end of the American experiment? Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his administration are flouting the Constitution and making a mockery of the checks and balances that have kept U.S. democracy going over nearly a quarter millennium. Congr...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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41:42

DMZ America Podcast Ep 191: Political Potpourri
It’s Trump’s second week as president and he’s a busy boy. He’s expanding Guantánamo Concentration Camp to accommodate as many as 36,000 migrants in perpetuity, working on ways to get a third term, firing the inspectors general and running roug...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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58:09

DMZ America Podcast Ep 190: So It Begins…Trump 2.0
Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) break down Donald Trump’s first week as president. From pardons to executive orders to cabinet appointments to the inauguration to domestic and foreign policy legisla...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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1:09:12

DMZ America Podcast Ep 189: Darrin Bell Arrested for Child Porn
Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) react to the arrest of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and comic-strip artist Darrin Bell for possessing and distributing child pornography.
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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35:32

DMZ America Podcast Ep 188: Ann Telnaes Quits Washington Post
Free speech is in the news! Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) discuss the high-profile departure of their colleague, Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes, from The Washington Post. Meta a...
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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57:21

DMZ America Podcast Ep 187: Interview with Cartoonist David Fitzsimmons
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) are joined by David Fitzsimmons, Cartoonist and Columnist for the Arizona Daily Star, to discuss David’s role as a Democratic activist and the future of the Democ...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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1:06:24

DMZ America Podcast Ep 186: Happy Festivus!
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) celebrate the December 23rd holiday of Festivus with the traditional Airing of Grievances. As “Seinfeld”’s Frank Costanza said it in the show’s Festivus episode: ...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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58:33

DMZ America Podcast Ep 185: Political Potpourri
As the Biden era yields to the second rise of Trumpism, the transition to What Happens Next is continuing with a sense of purpose as well as foreboding. Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) analyze th...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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58:09

DMZ America Podcast Ep 184: It’s Vigilante Time!
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) discuss a pair of stories that reflect a disturbing trend: as the government turns more lawless and fails to enforce the law, Americans are taking the law into th...
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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49:02

DMZ America Podcast Ep 183: The Censorship War Against Political Cartoonists
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) are joined by Terry Anderson of the Cartoonist Rights Network International to discuss the state of political cartooning in the United States and around the world...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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1:01:59

DMZ America Podcast Ep 182: United Healthcare CEO Killed: Vigilantism or Justifiable Homicide?
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) dig into the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Does the misery intrinsic to the profit model of companies like United Healthcare justify vio...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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44:37

DMZ America Podcast Ep 181: Special Guest Clarence Page—Democrats Take Stock, Hunter Biden Pardoned
The DMZ America Podcast’s Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) are joined by syndicated columnist Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune to discuss the despondent state of the Democratic Party in the wake of their defeat. Progr...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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1:07:04

DMZ America Podcast Ep 180: Trump’s Concentration Camps
Trump recently reconfirmed that he plans to carry out his campaign pledge to enforce mass deportations of many of the 10 million migrants with varying statuses who have entered the United States in recent years. Some overstayed their tourist vi...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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49:53

DMZ America Podcast Ep 179: The Ukraine War: Why It Began, How It Ends
During the campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump promised to bring a rapid conclusion to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that began in 2022. But most Americans aren't aware of how or why the war began in the first place. Now the waters are gettin...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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50:54

DMZ America Podcast Ep 177: Interview with Ben Sargent
As President-Elect Donald Trump fills out his cabinet and key White House positions, including creating a new government-efficiency office for Elon Musk, the DMZ America podcast’s Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) are ...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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49:41

DMZ America Podcast Ep 178: Are Trump’s Cabinet Picks the Worst Ever?
President-Elect Donald Trump has made headlines with an extraordinarily esoteric group of appointments to his cabinet and other top jobs in his incoming second administration. Controversial alleged sex criminal Matt Gaetz has been named Attorne...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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1:00:52

DMZ America Podcast Ep 176: Can the Democrats Be Fixed?
The Democratic Party finds itself in nearly as much disarray as the GOP did following Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat to LBJ. DMZ America co-hosts Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) turn to American political scientist Ch...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:01:45

DMZ America Podcast Ep 175: Interview with Animated Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore
DMZ America co-hosts Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) turn to their colleague, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, known for his hard-hitting animated shorts about U.S....
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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45:29

DMZ America Podcast Ep 174: Before Trump, There Was Grover Cleveland
DMZ America co-hosts Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) look back at the only other president in history who returned to the White House after having served and then been defeated: Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th Pr...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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46:53
