Adam Zyglis explains the ongoing outrage factor, in which the Republicans work to rile up the public over dubious threats while quietly enacting real ones. Coming up with phony reasons to restrict voting rights is a core goal, but hardly the only one: It’s also reported that, while GOP legislators are fuming over the prospect […]
Half Full is one of several cartoons about the switch from Good Ol’ Reggaler Time to Daylight Saving Not “Savings” Time, but it’s my favorite. Maria Scrivan is more iconic than gag-oriented and this is a topic well-worn enough that there aren’t a lot of good gags left, but an illustrator with a sense of […]
(I’m going to take a day to let the more serious editorial commentary catch up.) I find it most encouraging that Wallace the Brave is of a generation that wears helmets without thinking too hard about it. Helmets came up with the re-emergence of skateboards, so my kids caught some of it, but they […]
This isn’t a political cartoon. We don’t do political cartoons on Friday. It’s a New Yorker cartoon, a wry observation by David Sipress on life in the city and its more comfortable suburbs. And it cracked me up just as if it were a regular cartoon and not political at all, because my social networks […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958. I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company […]