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Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

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Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this:...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

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Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

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Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

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...

26.09.2026 5

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

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Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...

24.09.2026 3

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 22, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 22, 2026
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Jonah Goldberg: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump

Jonah Goldberg: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump
21.09.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Inspiration from a Hong Kong cell

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 21, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 21, 2026
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Cartoonist’s Take: September 20, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 20, 2026
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Ask the attorney column: Should I be worried ‘Flock’ camera footage could be used in my criminal case?

Ask the attorney column: Should I be worried ‘Flock’ camera footage could be used in my criminal case?
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Steven Roberts: Trump is on the ballot

Steven Roberts: Trump is on the ballot

“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree...

19.09.2026 10

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Byron York: Trump, inflation and the midterms

Byron York: Trump, inflation and the midterms

Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was … more of the same. The year-over-year inflation...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

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Reader’s View: Suicide prevention is everyone’s responsibility

September is Suicide Prevention Month – a time to raise awareness, remember those we have lost, and remind our community that prevention is possible...

18.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

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Cartoonist’s take: Sept. 16, 2026

“Trump renames the world” Cagle Cartoons.

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Bad anniversaries

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...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

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Byron York: Trump and his voters

A new analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits...

12.09.2026 10

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Steven Roberts: Big lie, bad policy

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...

12.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026

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Elwood Watson: Gloria Steinem and the expansion of feminism

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...

10.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026

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Tom Purcell: How college tuition has gotten so high

Why is four-year college tuition so high in America? William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 9, 2026

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Christine Flowers: About Lindsay Clancy, the case, the lawyer and her supporters

Every lawyer who passed the bar (and some who didn’t) have an opinion on the Lindsay Clancy trial. I have an opinion, too, and it’s about as...

09.09.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Mother Theresa will show you what it’s like

A beaming smile comes from a man on a thin mattress on the floor. He looks malnourished. And I know he’s dying because he’s at a Missionaries of...

08.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 8, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg: Americans should be concerned about the fine print on Trump’s new oil deal

So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement...

07.09.2026 10

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Cal Thomas: What’s in a name?

As part of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn’t a trade war, the president has signed an executive order,...

07.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Why farmers are fuming

Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But...

06.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026

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Byron York: Which Republicans will run to succeed Trump in 2028?

Over the last year or so, President Donald Trump has sometimes pointed to Vice President JD Vance as his preference for the 2028 Republican...

06.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026

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Elwood Watson: Ex-Trump supporter learns loyalty is a one-way street

From now on, far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will have to promote his fringe conspiracies and racial controversies in Great Britain after...

04.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026

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Danny Tyree: Does 9/11 mean enough to you?

Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of...

04.09.2026 10

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Tom Purcell: Autumn, finally: A season to calm our politics

September has arrived, which means autumn is here. It couldn’t come soon enough. Politics all day long You see, a 2026 Change Research survey finds...

03.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026

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Dick Polman: A stupid war could once again trigger a blue electorial tsunami

Republican President George W. Bush’s stupid war in Iraq (launched on false premises and bogus promises) triggered a blue tsunami in the 2006...

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Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026

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