Peter Funt

The Mighty Pen Strikes Out
07/15/2019
His portfolio of editorial cartoons in hand, Burris Jenkins Jr. arrived for a job interview at The New York American one day in 1931 and ... Read More
NBC’s Debatable Debate Coverage
07/02/2019
Among the losers in the Democrats' opening presidential debate was NBC News. Faced with an unmanageable number of candidates, an awkward format, and miscast moderators ... Read More
FDR in 2020
06/13/2019
Modern politics can be summed up this way: Republicans frequently refer to Ronald Reagan, while Democrats prefer to conjure memories of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt's New ... Read More
I’m Fully Unprepared
05/30/2019
I read an essay the other day that caught me totally unprepared. It was written by a teacher in Charlotte, N.C., who stated that at ... Read More