How did we get here? The right wing has identified Critical Race Theory as this week’s Threat Against America and has accused the U.S. military of “wokeness” because it has used this framework to assess the influence of white supremacists[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for politics
Occasion for this cartoon: This week the viral news concerned ex-prez Obama tut-tutting liberals or lefties on Twitter for “canceling” the hateful people who make their lives miserable. Or maybe it was rape survivors standing up to Harvey Weinstein? Or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a mirror universe, I suppose. The Washington Post has a story about how the Trump Organization for decades has used undocumented migrant workers from Latin America to build its empire of golf courses and wineries, paying them below scale[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The president just spoke out against hatred and bigotry like a child forced to give a book report.
Right, so, I am sure you have just killing yourself with worry that the 9 or 10 political cartoons I drew in 2015 were just floating aimlessly in the void with nowhere to live. Well, now your personal (our national)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is barely afternoon on the West Coast of North America, so I am still digesting the news as it is coming in. I sit at a reference desk in my library, helping students find books or cite sources or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can read more comics like this at the Fetch page. This week’s strip stars an old friend of mine, Barry Deutsch. We often have conversations like this, where we try to figure out how much we should expect American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s strip ran late. Sorry. This time the problem wasn’t a lack of time to do a strip, but how much time it took to draw this one. Lots of action and poses and details. As for the theme, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gaffes are an inevitable part of the long campaign season for the presidency, a problem made worse when they became more expensive, requiring an extra year just to raise money. Throw in more debates, and candidates, brain weary and tongue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…