While we’re remembering 250 years ago, it was about then that Samuel Johnson wrote “My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a ...

I wasn’t going to revisit Trump’s state fair or run anymore July 4 cartoons, but Deering’s commentary is not only funny but ...

Unlike today’s Pearls Before Swine, which I instantly figured out what was going on, it took a double take for me to transliterate the words in Pluggers to names and figure out what was what. Bragging ...

For a number of reasons the semiquincentennial of The Declaration of Independence does not seem to be celebrated as hardily ...

Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith ...

The Bicentennial was a big deal and we prepared for it all year. Time magazine even put out a special edition, based on the ...

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Sandra Boyton‘s first board book and The New York Times is getting a jump on celebrating the anniversary. Brian Goedde extols the virtues of Boynton and her books or here. Now that Boynton’s books ...

One of today’s major themes is how you balance celebration with reasonable criticism. Jennings offers a disapproving State of the Union illustration that demonstrates how our current administration, ...

Matt Golding, Australia; Carlos Latuff, Brazil; Ricardo Sánchez Bobadilla, Mexico Matt Golding Streamline Feed goes “Inside ...