It’s lovely to think that, when a candidate makes a promise of “no new taxes,” the audience will respond by thinking of all they’d have to give up to make that promise true.Slane is being sarcastic, a...

First Dog points out that, indeed, the whole world is watching. That wouldn’t be so bad if we were some obscure country nobody really cared about, so they could watch what we’re up to, snicker and shr...

Rall suggests that perhaps our national priorities are out of whack, though it might be a better world if they were this openly explained. It would also be a better country if someone, anyone spoke th...

I’m glad to have run into this pair in this order, because Heller’s bucked up my spirits somewhat after Granlund’s negative take on election signs. It is indeed fall, and as much as I look forward to ...

The banishment of the press has ended, thanks to some solidarity among the press corps and a judge who had apparently read the Constitution. However, as anticipated here yesterday, the boycott cost De...

As they say, timing is everything. They usually say it about comedy, but it’s obviously a factor in political cartooning and here’s a pair of cartoons that had everything except good timing, and, in t...

It is the elephant, not the president, who hesitates to dive into an empty pool. They’ve followed him faithfully since his first inauguration, but Republicans have been scrubbing their websites of men...

I wasn’t going to do any Trump vs. the Press cartoons today, having pretty well exhausted the topic for a while, but Telnaes introduces a new character that cracks me up.The term “work wife” came up w...

We discussed Dear Leader’s open warfare on the news yesterday, but it’s hardly a one-day story, and Lewis continues her own coverage, with the additional aspect of men in black removing news companies...

We’ve discussed this expression before, but it’s a good starting point for today’s discussion and, besides, it’s so universally misunderstood that it doesn’t hurt to point it out again: First of all, ...

I’m not sure there are any nurses these days who still tell kids a shot isn’t going to hurt. I know my son the nurse is quite honest about it, explaining that, yes, it’s going to hurt, but only for a ...

News and commentary are full of coverage of Canada’s potential to become the first “associate member” of the European Union, but Loper — who is not a political cartoonust — provides a simple explanati...

Start the day with a very old memory. In first grade, we got straws with our milk and we got butter on small plates on the cafeteria tables. In those days, O Best Beloved, the paper wrappers on straws...

There’s not really a Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” but we sure do seem cursed with them. I feel particularly sorry for satirists like Tom Tomorrow and Andy Borowitz, who have bui...

AI says it’s time to wake up, Golding notes, and that if we don’t, we may not. The people who understand this stuff seem to agree that it’s in real danger of getting out of hand, and in a perfect worl...

Here’s an oldie from 2000 which I came across when I was, of course, looking for something else. It was an instant favorite of mine because (A) I had a neighbor who overdecorated at Christmas and (B) ...

Morland sums up Trumpapalooza, which I would point out was the Republicans’ own nickname for their unprecedented midterm convention, not mine. I’d say showing a packed crowd is being particularly gene...

While other cartoonists reflected the mood 25 years later, or encapsulated how we’ve changed and what we’re learned since, Ann Telnaes instead posted a collection of her 9/11 related cartoons from tha...

Peter Schrank’s response to the 9/11 attacks of 25 years ago became an anchor in the editorial cartooning presentation that was part of my educational mission in those days. I was doing Newspapers-in-...

Peter Schrank’s response to the 9/11 attacks of 25 years ago became an anchor in the editorial cartooning presentation that was part of my educational mission a generation ago. I was doing Newspapers-...

Cartoonists and other satiric commentators have been borrowing quotes from Orwell since the first Trump administration, but it has often meant finding general observations about dictatorships that cou...

The current distraction in Britain is that the Bayeux Tapestry is visiting from its home in France. The 11th Century tapestry is 70 meters long and 50 meters high, which wouldn’t fit in my livingroom ...

Tauhid Bondia has a brilliant ability to shift between actual kids stuff and kids’ surrealistic imaginary lives, and here’s lovely blend of both. During the week, he’s been probing the real-life horro...

Red & Rover is set in an indefinite past that lines up fairly well with my own, and when I was a kid, Labor Day was indeed the end of summer vacation. It still is in some places, but other kids have l...

We’ll start today’s collection of Quick Takes with a quick take of its own. The idea of Duke joining the Trump administration is exciting, but I’m not sure it can work in Doonesbury’s once-a-week form...

What if they gave a big convention, the first party convention held before a midterm, and nobody came?That seems to be the prospect facing Dear Leader. He planned an extravaganza starring himself (nat...

Emmerson’s double-tribute last week set me to thinking about life and death and whatnot. I already had it in mind, because one of my dearest friends died recently, and her death reminded me of how, in...

I’ve seen so many cartoons combining the Strait of Hormuz with some visual imagery that they flow by without my noticing them anymore. But Hajjaj’s piece stopped me, in part because it’s so attractive...

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It’s either cuddle the dog or shut off the alarm clock, and waking up to an inquisitive nose is better than waking up to an obnoxious buzzing. In my nine-to-five days, I woke up to NPR, but sometimes ...

A candidate running to represent North Carolina’s eastern counties in Congress faces a $2,589 fine after betting on her own campaign.

We’ll start with some good news, since that’s in such short supply lately: Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah, winner of the 2026 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award from Freedom Cartoonists, has le...

Trump’s war on Canada is getting plenty of praise at Xitter, but Telnaes asks if the response of genuine, three-dimensional conservatives will be as positive as that of the bots and trolls that domina...

Whamond slipped a reality check into Reality Check this past week to remind us that summer is drawing to a close. I don’t mind that, since autumn is my favorite time of year and this past summer was a...

Bok cuts to the chase. It’s not clear that any particular event, much less crisis, demanded that Trump address a problem that didn’t seem to exist, or at least, didn’t seem to exist to anyone who unde...

If you’re the sort of person who comes here often, you’ve almost certainly already heard that Meta — parent company of Facebook and Instagram — has arrived at a settlement in a case in which they were...

That was exactly my response when I got my first pair of glasses in third grade. I had just assumed that, at a distance, trees looked like drawings of trees: A big blob of green, and you weren’t suppo...

Dolly Parton’s death dominates political cartoons today. I’m not a fan of obituary cartoons, but I think it’s fitting that so many cartoonists used her Coat of Many Colors as a motif, since it was not...

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Trump’s attempt to extort Canada continues to draw mockery, and Telnaes does the rest of the commentators one better by noting that not only are the Canadians not intimidated, but Americans are lining...

Wuerker points out the many ways Dear Leader is interfering with the upcoming midterm elections, whining about alleged cheating in 2020 that only he can see, and insisting that it’s going to happen ag...

Brave, crazy, whatever. Wallace reminds me that summer vacation involved not just lying in the sunshine looking for shapes in the clouds but also some truly irrational adventures. Not that we didn’t c...

I don’t expect to devote much more attention to Natalie Harp unless something new and important emerges, but the reaction so far has been a combination of cover-up and guesswork. When you aren’t forth...

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) both grabbed and sparked headlines this week with a brief mention of a Trump aide who, until then, had flown under the radar. He doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build...

A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston’s body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away.It used ...

There seems to be a contest to see who can draw the best cartoon about ICE agents peeing with their shock gloves on. Bado has several more at his blog, which spares me having to collect an array. I’ll...

Peter Mancini, 48, of Lebanon, pleaded guilty Wednesday to unemployment fraud and perjury.