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Cartoonist’s Take: October 13, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 13, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 13, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Reality remains undefeated

Steven Roberts: Reality remains undefeated

“When leaders neglect lived experience, the message collapses,” wrote former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in The New York Times....

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Reader’s View: Together, the first all-women ticket will be elected in NY

Reader’s View: Together, the first all-women ticket will be elected in NY

By Hon. Joanne Dittes Yepsen Regardless of party, New Yorkers care deeply about leaving a better state for the next generation – securing a...

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Ask the attorney: Forgot the prenup? It’s not too late to protect your assets with a postnup

By Nancy C. Nissen, Esq. A prenuptial agreement is a contract signed by a couple before the marriage ceremony occurs. So, while you cannot sign a...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

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Byron York: The Senate seat most likely to flip

Byron York: The Senate seat most likely to flip

When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those most likely to switch parties is North Carolina,...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

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Elwood Watson: The Cornell 7 and the continued failure of universities across the country

Elwood Watson: The Cornell 7 and the continued failure of universities across the country

The sordid issue of rape has reared its sadistic presence again in the wake of the Cornell 7 assaults. Seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

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Christine Flowers: Josh Shapiro and the pro-life movement

Christine Flowers: Josh Shapiro and the pro-life movement

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is one of those men who pride themselves on supporting women. That is a good thing. My father was my biggest booster...

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Dick Polman: The MAGA Senate needs to drown in a blue wave

Dick Polman: The MAGA Senate needs to drown in a blue wave

It’s easy to imagine how James Madison would’ve felt about a MAGA Missouri meathead like Eric Schmitt. As the prime architect of our Constitution,...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

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Tom Purcell: Can you pass the citizenship test?

Tom Purcell: Can you pass the citizenship test?

More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma. This fall Iowa began giving its...

06.10.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s take: Oct. 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Oct. 5, 2026

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... "Congressional insider trading practices" by Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons. "Trump depression remark...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Republicans don’t own religion

Steven Roberts: Republicans don’t own religion

For more than 50 years, voters of faith have aligned strongly with the Republican Party. In the last election, white evangelical Christians accounted...

03.10.2026 10

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Byron York: Are GOP doomers overreacting?

Byron York: Are GOP doomers overreacting?

This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among Republicans around the country. Not just the...

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: October 1, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 1, 2026

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Elwood Watson: Race and the Lindsay Clancy case

Michael Desronvil, the lone Black juror who prohibited 11 others from absolving Lindsay Clancy of criminal responsibility in the death of her three...

01.10.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 30, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

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Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

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Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

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Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

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Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 22, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Inspiration from a Hong Kong cell

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 21, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 20, 2026

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Ask the attorney column: Should I be worried ‘Flock’ camera footage could be used in my criminal case?

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Steven Roberts: Trump is on the ballot

“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree...

19.09.2026 10

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Byron York: Trump, inflation and the midterms

Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was … more of the same. The year-over-year inflation...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

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Reader’s View: Suicide prevention is everyone’s responsibility

September is Suicide Prevention Month – a time to raise awareness, remember those we have lost, and remind our community that prevention is possible...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

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Cartoonist’s take: Sept. 16, 2026

“Trump renames the world” Cagle Cartoons.

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Bad anniversaries

One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

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