Recent Columns
February 19, 2026
by Daryl Cagle
This week, the country said goodbye to civil rights leader and former Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson, who died after a long battle with a neurodegenerative disease. Our most-popular cartoon of the week was Jonathan Brown's obituary c..
February 19, 2026
by Elwood Watson
Whether it was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s gut-wrenching assassination in 1968, Barack Obama’s initial address as president-elect in November 2008, or any other historic moment relating to Black history over the past sixty-plus years, ..
February 18, 2026
by Alexandra Paskhaver
I wrote this article with my neighbor George. You can tell because the funny jokes are mine and the others are his. As I have often had cause to mention, my neighbor George is a nuclear engineer. This means he is responsible for anything that goes �..
February 18, 2026
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Is it time for the educational system to go “old school” again? According to NBC News, concerned parents nationwide are rebelling against the heavy reliance on laptops and tablets by school districts. These parents are ch..
February 18, 2026
by Elwood Watson
For people who believe only straight, heterosexual white men should be in charge, these are interesting times. Currently, the most powerful and influential social conservative in the world resides once again in the White House and seems as determine..
February 16, 2026
by Christine Flowers
I thought I could abandon the topic of antisemitism for a few weeks. There was Pam Bondi to ridicule, ICE raids to criticize, and an idiotic Super Bowl halftime show performed in Spanish by a guy who didn’t want us to know how misogynistic he real..
February 16, 2026
by Dick Polman
I found it perversely entertaining watching shrieking she-devil Pam Bondi as she sought to defend her dirtbag tenure at the Department of Pedophile Protection. She made the Wicked Witch of the West look like Mother Teresa. Any second I expected her ..
February 16, 2026
by Tom Purcell
No wonder the ratings for the Winter Olympics are so much better than they were four years ago. Four years ago, the Winter Olympics were held in China. The Beijing Games were designed to showcase the glory of the communist state. Athletes were under..
February 12, 2026
by Daryl Cagle
At times I wish we could go back to the days when extremists with the lowest intelligence and loudest voices didn't have digital megaphones spreading their garbage. Our most popular cartoon of the week by far, drawn John Darkow, touches on that thoug..
February 12, 2026
by Alexandra Paskhaver
My five-year plan is currently on year eight. Look, it’s not my fault that it takes me time to do things. Okay, so maybe “time” is a misnomer. Maybe I did spend two hours ordering a pizza when it could have taken me 15 minutes. But I had to ch..
February 12, 2026
by Joe Guzzardi
Thanks to questionable programs like birthright citizenship, and chain migration, as many as 1.5 million Chinese may be eligible to vote by 2030. The startling number, revealed in Peter Schweizer’s new best selling book, “The Invisible Coup: How..
February 12, 2026
by Tom Purcell
Note to Editors: A prior version of this column was distributed in 2024. All my father ever wanted as a young man was to marry my mother and start a family — plans that were interrupted when he was drafted into the Army during the Korean conflict...
February 11, 2026
by Elwood Watson
It's worth pausing for a moment to recall just a few days ago, President Donald Trump shared a racist clip on his social media account that showed the heads of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama transplanted onto a mo..
February 11, 2026
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Lean on me/When you’re not strong/And I’ll be your friend/I’ll help you carry your Frisbee.” - apologies to Bill Withers. I was intrigued by a recent article by Margret Grebowicz, a philosophy professor at Missouri..
February 10, 2026
by Tom Purcell
Girl Scout cookies are back, and the new inverted food pyramid gives me permission to eat them — sort of. I’m addicted to Girl Scout cookies, you see. I measure Thin Mints servings by the sleeve, not the cookie. I gobble down Tagalongs the way g..
February 9, 2026
by Christine Flowers
One of my favorite stars is Gregory Peck, because he embodied what I always believed to be the American ideal: a handsome man who spoke quietly, but whose moral center was rock solid. Of course, he was Atticus Finch, fighting racists in the Deep Sou..
February 9, 2026
by Dick Polman
My friends would tell you I have a freakish memory. On the up side, I know the date of the Mets-Pirates double-header I saw at Shea Stadium (July 3, 1966), and I know the date I was hiking the rim of a canyon in Yellowstone (July 30, 1977). But on t..
February 5, 2026
by Daryl Cagle
Are we ever going to have another slow news week? Trump threatening to nationalize elections, A.I.'s continued stampede through our lives, the Washington Post's implosion, and the Super Bowl are just some of the topics that made our list of the most ..
February 5, 2026
by Joe Guzzardi
I’ve been around long enough to have seen the Super Bowl games since the first one kicked off in 1967. “Seen” is too strong a word. Early on, I watched every play, glued to the television. But for the last several years, the game has been on b..
February 5, 2026
by Alexandra Paskhaver
People say I’m stubborn about lawncare, but I’m not. I look at every suggestion with an open mind before I say “No.” The trouble of living in New Jersey is that my lawn decides to die right about September and continues to be yellow and wisp..
February 4, 2026
by Elwood Watson
To paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II, 2025 is not a year we'll look back with undiluted pleasure It was indeed a challenging year, or as the late queen said in 1992, an “annus horribilis,” for postsecondary education. It was a particularly distressi..
February 4, 2026
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “You don’t have to tell your guts!” My mother’s colorful phrase for practicing verbal restraint would be mocked by proponents of the viral dating trend called “hot take dating.” Once upon a time, people in the dat..
February 3, 2026
by Peter Roff
Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik and the tariff gang think the imposition of tariffs on foreign-made medical devices won’t hurt the quality of healthcare here in America. The argument they’re puttin..
February 2, 2026
by Christine Flowers
ICE has been out of control over the past few months, and particularly since the beginning of this year. Over the three decades I’ve been practicing immigration law, I’ve never seen the level of chaos and division, fomented by the rhetoric of Do..
February 2, 2026
by Dick Polman
Let’s talk about the F-word. Not the one uttered 269 times in "Reservoir Dogs" and 569 times in "The Wolf of Wall Street." I’m talking about the one that should be on everyone’s lips - because it so concisely describes our current hellhole and..
January 30, 2026
by Tom Purcell
Groundhog Day levity has arrived just in time — but not everyone thinks so. Every Feb. 2, Phil the Groundhog emerges from his burrow at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. If he sees his shadow, winter will last six more weeks; if not, spring is..
January 29, 2026
by Daryl Cagle
Let it snow? While I'm here enjoying the warm weather in California, most of the eastern U.S. has been buried under the snow for going on a week. Our most-reprinted cartoon this week is a funny one by John Darkow, employing Punxsutawney Phil in an at..
January 29, 2026
by Christine Flowers
A few years ago, I had to do some research into the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act, colloquially known as FACE. Every pro-lifer in the country knows about this law, signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton to protect abortion clinics fro..
January 28, 2026
by Alexandra Paskhaver
I love being out on the water and hate fishing. Or maybe it’s the other way around. A colleague of mine invited me to go out on a lake and try our luck at catching fish. I categorically refused. It’s not that I hate fish. I love fish, especially..
January 28, 2026
by Peter Funt
President Trump deserves credit for bravely having himself added to the outdated and, frankly, boring name of the venue previously known as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Considering that Mr. Trump single-handedly saved the cent..