Posted on: December 10, 2018

Voice of America’s web site profiles the editorial cartooning medium with a short video featuring Politico’s Matt Wuerker and Patty Rhule of the Newseum.  https://www.voanews.com/a/editorial-cartoons/4693810.html

I’ll break the suspense: It’s “we.” It goes back to that thing about how most Indian tribes got their names from neighbors, while, in their own language, they basically called themselves “the people.” Which worked then, but, in a diverse community, a phrase like, “We, the people,” is more apt to mislead than to instruct. […]