Hank Kennedy for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) looks at the editoons of right-wing cartoonists during Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City. [FAIR is rated “Left-Center biased based on slightly favoring the left politically and High for factual reporting” according to Media Bias/Fact Check.] Right-wing political cartoonists, for obvious reasons, had […]
Otto Soglow’s New Yorker Spot Art New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen waxes wonderfully over the magazine’s Otto Soglow spot art. The New Yorker doesn’t easily let go of the old stuff. Recently, our copy department retired the hyphen we’d kept in “in-box” for longer than anyone should keep anything in an inbox. But “teen-ager” […]
Let’s start with something guaranteed to offend somebody: I’m okay with death. We all die eventually and maybe my stoicism makes it easier to deal with but I can’t think of a major religion in which a well-prepared death is seen as bad. It’s sad, but it makes sense to deal with it, and Bizarro […]