Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]
Anderson nails our current situation well in his latest piece, and addresses a matter that has bothered me for several years.As you can see from his sig, Ratt introduced the concept six years ago. I liked it then, but I couldn’t take the warning literally. It’s an oversimplification to say our Civil War was fought […]
This, unfortunately, is a good way to start the week. It’s unfortunate because, yes, that could be you being grabbed off the street, beaten, jailed and deported. As we’ve seen, you can even be a citizen. Heck, as we saw with the snatching of Ogalala men, you can have roots here further back than the […]
The reactions to Scott Adams‘ death, like the comments in our obituary, varied greatly depending on the point of view of those responding as whether they were or were not a fan of the cartoonist. President Trump and MAGA were fans, but…there had to be a better way to pay tribute to a cartoonist than […]
Bill Day takes what I believe to be an unnecessarily pessimistic look at the year ahead.He’s correct that the gloves are off and that Trump and his fellow travelers are not hiding their ambitions. Homeland Security has posted this declaration of plans to deport 100,000,000 “third world” people and if you need a translator to […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair.However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy messages […]
Donald Trump is not a lame duck. No offense to Wexler, who is just passing along the current meaning of the term, but the original meaning mattered.The term comes from before 1933, when newly elected officials didn’t take office until March. That left a four month period that featured legislators who had no mandate and […]
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 a […]
I agree with Kelley so rarely that it’s only fair to let him start off this post-Thanksgiving edition.He’s right. If Democrats said to do those things, it wouldn’t give you permission, though if you wanted to import 400 tons of cocaine into the US, the president might pardon you as a good guy. But if […]
Anderson tells the story economically and all but wordlessly. We assume that whatever Dear Leader is saying doesn’t count as actual dialogue, and the donkey’s smile is so eloquent that the blanket on his back was unnecessary. We all know what he’s hee-hawing about.It was, to be sure, a first-class ass kicking, and Matson correctly […]
A whole lot of Halloween-themed cartoons are now obsolete, and so, perhaps, are a flood of cartoons about SNAP benefits, given that two separate courts ordered the funds distributed after all. (The “perhaps” being based on the potential for Dear Leader to ignore the courts, or to appeal the decisions.)For the next little while, we […]
Brodner hits on a couple of levels with this one. When Nikita Khruschev said “We will bury you,” most Americans took it as a threat, given that it was the middle of the Cold War. But it was an idiomatic expression meaning “We will be here when you’re gone,” similar to saying “We will dance […]
A bit of a gentle start, since things may get a little rough before we’d done. Granted, Horsey makes Russ Vought look like a mad scientist, offering America a trip in his time machine.But it could be worse, because, beyond that, what Vought offers is a trip back to a time that colors the notion […]
Several reversals to cover today, so we’ll start with one Steve Kelley probably wishes he could have back. The cartoon is based on an incident in Thursday night’s Philadelphia/Dallas game in which Eagles player Jalen Carter was ejected for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, which Kelley transformed into an accusation that leftists are spitting […]