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Cartoonist’s Take: August 9, 2026
The Reflecting Pool opened on the National Mall in 1922, linking the monuments that honor Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The pool serves as...
The odds are Republicans will lose control of the House in the coming midterms — for five reasons: 1. their current majority is so narrow that...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 8, 2026
“David Hearn paddles through DOJ files.” (Jeff Koterba via CagleCartoons.com) “Costly gas, costly food.” (Christopher Weyant,...
Once upon a time, there was a man named Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, but nobody called him that because it was a nuisance to...
I can’t imagine such a thing happening today: In the early ‘70s, when I was 10, my family left my baby sister Mary behind at the drive-in theater....
Cartoonist’s Take: August 7, 2026
“He chose not to run,” Michael Marlowe recalled of his son. Jake Marlowe was murdered at the now infamous Nova music festival in Israel on Oct. 7,...
Helicopter parents are getting worse. The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their...
“Trump watches Olympic canoeist news” by Dave Granlund, via Cagle Cartoons. “Seeking tickets to safe country” by Bob Englehart, via Cagle...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 5, 2026
I’ve been thinking about the Dunning-Kruger effect, and I’m pretty sure I’m an expert on it. For those of you that don’t know, the...
“Trump reaches to flip Iran war switch” by Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons. “Angry cloud blames Trump election” by Christopher Weyant, via Cagle...
I remember exactly where I was when I learned the first plane hit the Twin Towers. I was riding in a Durango headed south on Broad Street toward my...
“Fauci pleads the fifth to GOP sharks” by Ed Wexler via Cagle Cartoons. “Man Requests Typewriter Ribbon Instead of Apps” by Harley Schwadron,...
Cartoonist’s Take: August
President Trump is kicking out about 350,000 Haitian immigrants who have lived here for many years, raising their children, paying their taxes and...
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the far-right social media influencers and self-described misogynists who command a following of young, angry men on the...
“Forever Words About A Forever War” by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com via Cagle Cartoons. “Trump third term bar conversation” by Chris Weyant,...
According to Cosmopolitan, the shag haircut of the 1970s has become all the rage in 2026. That makes me grumpy because I’m still upset about the...
In 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” which “contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,” such as “it...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026
This past week was the 57th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young woman who somehow found herself in a car driven by a drunk who just...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 28, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: July 24, 2026
Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent...
“Count your blessings, name them one by one…” – Johnson Oatman, Jr. Unless you’re the parent or grandparent of a little chatterbox, you’ve...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 23, 2026
Vacation season is upon us, and nobody knows how to vacation better than our friends in Europe. Whereas many Americans settle for a weeklong summer...
Some people say social media is not real, and the type of folks we see living in that world are mutant versions of the actual person. I think they are...
I hate being on call. First, I have to clarify I work for a software company. I don’t get paged in the same way a doctor does when there’s a...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 21, 2026
The war with Iran that never really ended is back on. Like everybody else, including the Trump administration and the Iranian regime, I have no idea...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 20, 2026
“Congressman’s Job” by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham once called Joe Biden “as good a man as God ever created.” Years later, he described Donald Trump — who derided and demeaned...
One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a...
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase “Plus ça change, plus c’est la...
“A ball of fire on one end and a fool on the other.” That’s how my high school history teacher Mr. Holt described cigarettes. (He also preached...
Cartoonist’s Take: July 15, 2026