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 his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the Emir of Qatar.Ossoff certainly […]
One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.
Bennett has a reasonable analysis of this week’s flurry of primaries and referenda. Voters made decisions that seemed to have more to do with their mood than with what the experts projected or what PAC dollars were spent to achieve. Two dramatic rejections of machine politics came in Kansas and Missouri, reliably Republican strongholds, where […]
A little rough, but rough times call for rough cartoons, and it’s reasonable to ask whether Dear Leader is a clever, conniving genius or, well, what Sheneman has him call himself. Though after 10 years of wondering whether he is a deliberate liar or believes the non-factual things he says, the rational conclusion is “What […]
The jokes write themselves, and the cartoons likewise. I’ve lost track of how many candidates have promised to drain the swamp only to find, once in office, that they kinda like it, but this is the first time I remember one of them building an actual swamp.This is a bookends juxtaposition: Venables posted his piece […]
This being a where-to-begin moment, we might as well start with Trump arriving late at the G7 Summit and declaring “I’m the Boss!” to a response of laughter that was either appreciative or mocking, depending on which reports you read. Obviously, MacKay was among those who were not amused.Nor was du Bus impressed. French President […]
Granlund offers attractive art and an odd concept, which is how readily, and how quickly, we have allowed ourselves to be dragged back into another interminable, self-destructive war in the Middle East.After all, we haven’t finished killing our allies from our last glorious overseas adventure.But, of course, we didn’t get into this war in the […]
Perhaps you have to be further away to see it clearly. Leahy views things from Australia, and apparently from there it appears that only Trump and Netanyahu think the war in Iran is a good idea, and also that Trump may have an ulterior motive. Or perhaps the message is that it only appears that […]
Kristi Noem’s sudden fall from grace called for some quick reactions from cartoonists and I think they acquitted themselves well as a group. Not every take was brilliant, but several were quite good, particularly from a cold start. I’m sure there will be some others landing in the next day or two, but you snooze, […]
Perhaps one reason Dear Leader never went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war or at least a positive War Powers ruling is that, as Telnaes suggests, he hasn’t got a rationale for the war, or, at least, one he can explain and is willing to stick with.He has said it was to […]
Two days after the attacks on Iran began, the assault continues to dominate political cartooning, though Monday is always quiet as few cartoonists work the weekend.Deering reminds us that Trump had claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability and now says the attacks are intended to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. At the […]
I suppose we should have seen it coming a half century ago, when people started buying “Archie Bunker for President” merchandise. As I’ve said here often, I watched “All in the Family” for several weeks before deciding that sitting through 20 minutes of racist, sexist jokes wasn’t worth the three-minute “Aw, Archie! You’re so wrong!” […]
Bennett’s commentary on Dear Leader’s interference with the election process is particularly apt, because, like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it has no legislative backing, came with no warning and represents an ego that has gone completely off the rails.It’s hardly the first indication that Trump is slipping a cog, […]
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a national strike going on today to protest ICE, with the slogan “No work, No school, No shopping,” and Matt Davies suggests some alternatives: A quiet walk on the beach alone, communing with nature privately in the forest or skipping a movie along with everybody else.Melania: Twenty Days to […]
Canada has never been a non-aligned country; they were in both World Wars before the US shook off its isolationism. But Carney’s outreach to China reminds me of something a former official of Cambodia told me, which is that even supposedly non-aligned nations need to make friends, and Cambodia had thrown in with the Americans […]