Dear Leader has revealed his plans for reforming immigration, and Jack Ohman sums it up: The idea is to have only people come here if they don’t need to be here, and the question is whether the people who harvest our fruits and vegetables will have full Phd’s or if we will allow people to […]
As a scholar who studies social media and memetics, I wonder if political cartoons are the best way to connect with today’s diverse readership. Many crave searing, cutting political commentary – and they’re finding it in internet memes. What if internet memes were elevated – not only as a serious art form but also as […]
Nate Beeler leads off in a flood of cartoons on the latest strategy of Right-to-Life extremists to force the Roberts Court to reconsider Roe v Wade.I like the piece in the first place because it combines a terse statement of the actual strategy with a metaphorical description of the primitive instincts that inspire it.I bristle […]
Foreign media outlets that frequently incite against Israel are much more likely than others to slip into antisemitism. The recent cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published by The New York Times is a case in point. Yet this daily was only one example among many.Manfred Gerstenfeld, for The Algemeiner, examines recent samples of […]
I’ve subscribed to “Counterpoint,” a new weekly compilation of political cartoons, which you can, too, by clicking that link and then selecting “subscribe” at the top left.It includes Nick Anderson, Kal Kallaugher, Mike Lester, Rick McKee, Michael Ramirez and Rob Rogers, which is, I think, an accidental mix of three from the left and three […]
In the beginning, there was “the word.” And then Ben Franklin added cartoons to your favourite newspaper. It is 265 years ago this month that the then-loyal British citizen Franklin published an edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette with a woodcut print of a snake cut into segments with the caption, “Join or Die.” It was […]
I wish I thought Mike Thompson were kidding a little more about this.Not that it’s 100 percent accurate: So far as I know, you won’t see goats and chickens wandering around the streets in Tehran. One of the oddities of Iran is that it has modern, Western-facing cities but the people out in the country […]
Juxtaposition of the Whimper, not the Bang(Mo)(RJ Matson)Mo and Bartender can fret all they want over the hijacking of the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington, but the best outcome would be a massive boycott and no crowds and — Guess what? — that ain’t gonna happen.Alice Roosevelt Longworth said of her father, TR, “My […]
There are many things I don’t understand about IPOs, and Uber going public brings a lot of them to the surface, in large part because there’s a lot about Uber I don’t understand.It appears that Jimmy Margulies shares my confusion, because the part that seems clear is that, historically, people who signed up as scab […]
Pogo, Howard the Duck, Snoopy, Bill the Cat, and other comic characters have had runs at being the President of the United States.Yes, even Alfred E. Neuman. Now Alfred E. Neuman has been introduced into the 2020 race by President Trump.“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump told POLITICO in an exclusive […]
The most memorable legacy of Mark Harris’s classic baseball novel, “Bang the Drum Slowly” — which was made into a movie with Michael Moriarity and Robert De Niro — are the games of Tegwar, a ridiculous scam in which the object is to fleece some rookie or star-struck fan who doesn’t realize that “T.E.G.W.A.R.” stands […]
I have gotten way past the point of thinking anyone owes me anything. I’ve done OK with what I’ve been given and won’t bitch because I didn’t get a cherry on my free ice cream Sundae. But I can get pissed off on someone else’s behalf. The Pulitzer Prize is a subjective award; it’s not […]
Nonprofit status has become a common business model for many news organizations just starting out. That magic “501(c)(3)” on an About page doesn’t solve all a publisher’s problems by any means — but it opens up new avenues of funding, communicates intent to audiences, and orients the organization toward a common cause. Now that appeal […]
I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well.And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over.The people who bet on Maximum Security will never […]
Easy warm-up to start: Today’s Zits happens to come the day after 1A had a program about alternative school calendars, and also as I’m realizing my kid-reporters in Colorado will be out of school in about three weeks, a granddaughter will be graduating in four and some kids I work with in New York won’t […]