Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Ann Telnaes declares wake-up time, and I like the substitution of an alarm clock for a sword, because we’re not sure of the outcome but it seems that the […]
In case you hadn’t heard, John Auchter reminds us that there is an election coming up, and he provides a summary of what is at stake. As Mose Allison explained, “All I want is plenty, but I will take more.” Maybe we should swap that out to replace “E Pluribus Unam,” given that we’re a […]
Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) sums up the situation as we head into the weekend: Trump has a major debt hanging over his head and no comfortable way to pay it. To be accurate, it’s not $454 million that he’s got to raise. When you add in the cost of the bond, or, as the fellows he […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s not easy to avoid thinking about. My social media this morning consisted of a mix of leftover St. Patrick’s Day stuff — and I don’t intend to get into that again — and loads of […]
Jeff Koterba joins the ongoing theme of “Who cares?” with the by-now familiar message that it really doesn’t matter who wins the next election, that Trump and Biden have run against each other before and so why bother voting in November? However, the past 24 hours have seen a shift in other cartoons, following Biden’s […]
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of the electorate is being fed a steady diet of, at best, downer takes on everything and, at worst, lies. I understand the concept of spin. When I first began teaching high school kids about editorial […]
A happy ending for this Stephen Collins cartoon: Liz Truss did indeed come up with a title, and, though her book hasn’t been published yet, she did get to speak to a half-empty room at CPAC, which seems like an unnecessary effort, since she could have stayed home in Britain and spoken before a group […]
Alabama’s legal decision that embryos are people brought forth a lot of egg jokes — including this Clay Jones gag — some of which have been pretty funny. Pro-choice commentators have often compared the rightwing reverence for preborn human life with our predilection for eating preborn chickens, and there are certainly ways the comparison fits. […]
The term “useful idiots” was not coined by Lenin, but it still means what we thought it meant, and Maartin Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) depicts a post-Lenin Russian leader flanked by a pair of his most useful idiots, as he munches contentedly on roast Ukraine. Dave Whamond takes a shot at Tucker Carlson, who had the […]
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question. There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps […]
Kal Kallaugher offers an antidote of sorts to all the polling and panic, pointing out that party members barely make up half of voters. (Gallup says 27% Democrat, 25% Republican, 45% independent, presumably with some rounding.) He emphasizes his point not just by having the fellow bang on the ceiling, but by referring to “the […]
When Michael Ramirez (Creators) begins quoting Michael Dukakis, you know the End Times are near. Ramirez is hard to pin down; he appears strongly conservative but isn’t a consistent booster of the GOP, which wouldn’t have stood out once upon a time but it’s been awhile since we were less strongly divided than we are […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s cartoon introduces today’s theme by happenstance, because we all know that Ukraine needs our continued help, and that time is running out as fast as their ammunition. The happenstance is that the cartoon appears at the same time as David Frum’s article in the Atlantic, “Why the GOP Doesn’t Really Want a […]
This morning’s news of a potential American-negotiated pause in the fighting in Gaza, plus a release of prisoners, puts a lot of current political cartoons on shaky grounds, but adds some punch to Ward Sutton‘s mashup of the Biden campaign and the Golden Bachelor TV show. Which is to say that he hasn’t brought peace […]