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Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026
The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this:...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026
The teacher describes your child as pleasant, cooperative, and helpful. You briefly wonder whether there has been a clerical error. At home, the...
Q. My wife is looking for a new car and is considering the Genesis GV70. Do you have any thoughts on the vehicle? A. I really have a hard time finding...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026
Do I like that I can type a string of stream-of-consciousness thoughts into my computer’s internet browser, and, after a few moments of gazing at...
The flight of Hispanic voters from the Republican Party is one of the most important trends this political season, and a few numbers explain why. In...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026
Did you know that recently released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That’s an...
Historic preservation looks very different in Saratoga Springs than it does in the rest of the Capital District. Both places have deep architectural...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026
Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026
In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think...
In his latest fascist brain fart, the tinpot lord of the White House construction site has hereby banished three media outlets from what’s left of...
“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree...
Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was … more of the same. The year-over-year inflation...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the men and women of New York stood at the center of the struggle that created the United States – the first civil...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026
September is Suicide Prevention Month – a time to raise awareness, remember those we have lost, and remind our community that prevention is possible...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026
There aren’t enough rich people to tax to fund what Democratic Socialists of America candidates are promising. The millionaire next door When the...
“Trump renames the world” Cagle Cartoons.
A wedding is when two people celebrate their love by financially ambushing everyone they know. I have not attended many weddings. In part, this is...
John Fetterman is acid reflux surging through our body politic. Surely there must be a cure. But good luck with that. Hounding him until he quits is...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026
One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My...
“Trump offers hush money for votes,” by Adam Zyglis, via Cagle Cartoons.
Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026
Q. My 2016 Honda Accord has the four-cylinder engine and 112,000 miles on it. The car is throwing a P0420 code, catalyst efficiency below threshold....
“Let me just finish this.” It is a reasonable thing to say. We have work to complete, messages to answer and responsibilities that do not...
A new analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits...
Donald Trump has repeatedly argued — without evidence of any kind — that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Now he’s trying to rig the...
I fully intended to stay calm. This was the kind of low-stakes errand that didn’t have to set my emotions aflame. I was committed to returning a set...
After writing a history column for several decades, I often get asked why I like history. Well, because I’m human. No other species has the concept...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026
Gloria Steinem, who died last week at the age of 92, was the face of modern feminism who labored for decades to garner rights, protections, and...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026
Why is four-year college tuition so high in America? William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In...