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Cartoonist’s Take: August 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 9, 2026

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Steven Roberts: A botched presidency

Steven Roberts: A botched presidency

The Reflecting Pool opened on the National Mall in 1922, linking the monuments that honor Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The pool serves as...

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Byron York: What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?

Byron York: What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 8, 2026

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Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 7, 2026

“David Hearn paddles through DOJ files.” (Jeff Koterba via CagleCartoons.com) “Costly gas, costly food.” (Christopher Weyant,...

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Alexandra Paskhaver: Bearly getting by

Alexandra Paskhaver: Bearly getting by

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...

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Tom Purcell: The night we left my sister at the drive-in in 1972

Tom Purcell: The night we left my sister at the drive-in in 1972

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....

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 7, 2026

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Boy George’s free speech moment

“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,...

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Tom Purcell: Helicopter parents could learn from their trad moms and dads

Tom Purcell: Helicopter parents could learn from their trad moms and dads

Helicopter parents are getting worse. The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their...

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Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 5, 2026

“Trump watches Olympic canoeist news” by Dave Granlund, via Cagle Cartoons. “Seeking tickets to safe country” by Bob Englehart, via Cagle...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 5, 2026

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Alexandra Paskhaver: Failing upward

Alexandra Paskhaver: Failing upward

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...

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Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 4, 2026

“Trump reaches to flip Iran war switch” by Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons. “Angry cloud blames Trump election” by Christopher Weyant, via Cagle...

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Christine Flowers: Horror of 9/11 lost on many, including NYC’s mayor

Christine Flowers: Horror of 9/11 lost on many, including NYC’s mayor

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...

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Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 2, 2026

“Fauci pleads the fifth to GOP sharks” by Ed Wexler via Cagle Cartoons. “Man Requests Typewriter Ribbon Instead of Apps” by Harley Schwadron,...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August

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Steven Roberts: Trump’s Haiti policy morally indefensible, economically stupid

Steven Roberts: Trump’s Haiti policy morally indefensible, economically stupid

President Trump is kicking out about 350,000 Haitian immigrants who have lived here for many years, raising their children, paying their taxes and...

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Elwood Watson: Will Trump swoop in and save the Tates?

Elwood Watson: Will Trump swoop in and save the Tates?

Andrew and Tristan Tate, the far-right social media influencers and self-described misogynists who command a following of young, angry men on the...

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Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 1, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Aug. 1, 2026

“Forever Words About A Forever War” by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com via Cagle Cartoons. “Trump third term bar conversation” by Chris Weyant,...

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Tom Purcell: The 1970s shag haircut is back — proof America is doing just fine

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...

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Alexandra Paskhaver: America 250: Ben Franklin, poor Richard, and all that jazz

In 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” which “contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,” such as “it...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 30, 2026

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Christine Flowers: Anniversary of notorious episode a reminder tolerance is relative

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 28, 2026

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Alexandra Paskhaver: Lady law

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 27, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 26, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Is Trump losing his touch

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Byron York: A renewed war means renewed GOP midterm worries

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 25, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 24, 2026

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Cal Thomas: Troy Jackson is Graham Platner lite

Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent...

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Danny Tyree: Do you love 100 things about school?

“Count your blessings, name them one by one…” – Johnson Oatman, Jr. Unless you’re the parent or grandparent of a little chatterbox, you’ve...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 23, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 23, 2026

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Tom Purcell: Why Europeans get long paid vacation – and we don’t

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...

22.07.2026 10

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Christine Flowers: Two social media posts brought out breataking nastiness

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...

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Alexandra Paskhaver: On Call

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 21, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 21, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg: The Iran war could shape American policy for decades

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 20, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 20, 2026

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Cartoonist’s take: July 20, 2026

“Congressman’s Job” by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com.

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 18, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: July, 17, 2026

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Steven Roberts: The Two Lindsey Grahams

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...

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Byron York: Illness, Death and Turmoil Change Face of GOP Senate

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...

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Cal Thomas: The more things don’t change

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...

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Danny Tyree: Are cigarettes ‘cool’ again?

“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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: July 15, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: July 15, 2026

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