There has been some good reporting on Mike Johnson in the past few weeks, but there has also been a lot of the kind of normalizing that we saw with the Alt Right a few years ago. News corporations and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This whole cartoon is a response to a single article in the New York Times, “Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.” Well, and taking a potshot at David Leonhardt, whose bloodless newsletter appears[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been drawing cartoons written by Barry Deutsch for his political comic strip, Lefty Cartoons for a while now, and a new one launched today: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective. You can also view it at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is everyone properly disturbed yet? Since November 8th we have seen a huge wave of hate crimes directed against Americans of the Muslim faith or of Hispanic/Latino descent; Nazi swastikas sprayed on walls and Jewish cemeteries; a church burned with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Thursday night, watching cable news and monitoring Twitter for updates on the shooting in Dallas, I re-experienced in condensed time the mixture of frustration, horror, fear and confusion we went through during the Boston Marathon bombing and the days[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chuck Todd recently let it slip that he doesn’t feel obligated to do basic fact checking of a politician’s propaganda. In this case it was GOP talking points on so-called “Obummercare” – but I think we can see how this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From your “liberal” New York Times: But haven’t I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship? It depends on what you mean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…