by John L Micek

Note to editors: A version of this column was distributed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2025. He helped pave the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and others to end Jim Crow — but few know his name. So respected was this civil rights pioneer that..

January 16, 2026

Iran’s famine of the wise

In private conversations, U.S. officials often sound less confident than their public rhetoric suggests. Americans can pressure Tehran, but they can’t manufacture a legitimate Iranian leadership — and they know it. The danger is not only that th..

January 15, 2026

Dangerous data centers: Top ten cartoons of the week

With tech companies squeezing A.I.-powered tools into every product they can, energy-hungry data centers are popping up across the country to provide the necessary processing power. Our most popular cartoon this week, from the pen of John Cole, visua..

They still make TV commercials, don’t they?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree I’m starting to realize that the faces I recognize in obituaries are outnumbering the new friends I make. And all my favorite TV commercials are locked in the distant past. Sure, I recognize Flo from the Progressive Insuran..

January 14, 2026

Love, loss, and the year of the bidet

2025 was one heck of a year (and that’s the clean version). It was a year defined by devastating departures, including what was left of my youthful good looks. First, as you may have read about in a previous column, last summer, my wife and I move..

January 13, 2026

Trump official fighting the good fight against voter fraud

One of the most determined and dedicated fraud fighters in the U.S. is the under-appreciated, unsung Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, a constitutional law expert and free speech advocate. Dhillon succeeds the controversia..

The dark road ahead following Renee Good’s death

Millions of Americans continue to mourn the tragic death of Renee Good, the Minneapolis mother fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last week mere blocks from her home. Good, who was driving a maroon Honda near the protest, was confronted by ..

Reaching a conclusion about Renee Good’s killing

It finally dawned on me the connections we make on social media have absolutely nothing to do with reality. This is why I never tried online dating. I know people who found love that way, including a few “silver singles” who managed to excavate ..

January 12, 2026

A mass exodus from the totalitarian playhouse on the Potomac

As I tally the growing list of artists who have scraped Donald Trump off their shoes by exiting the MAGA Kennedy Center - the latest refugees are Nashville banjoist Bela Fleck and the entire Washington National Opera - I can’t help but recall so m..

Kids’ winter cure for nature deficit disorder

I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn’t notice the pond. Maybe I’d better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there's only one place a kid should be: out in the elements riding sleds down ..

A classy conservative in a quirky syndicate: Remembering Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away recently at the age of 80. He was a newspaper columnist, among many other things, and he wrote columns for my syndicate, Cagle Cartoons, as a conservative in a group filled with liberal..

A classy conservative in a quirky syndicate: Remembering Michael Reagan

Editor's note: This column is written by Daryl Cagle, the owner of Cagle Cartoons Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away recently at the age of 80. He was a newspaper columnist, among many other things, and he wrote columns ..

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