The most classic golf movies — think Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, or Tin Cup — all play off the same tension, which is that golf culture, quite apart from the mechanics of the actual game, is fundamentally stuffy. The joke of all of those movies is to envision the preposterous, nearly unimaginable reality of golf that’s […]
People have lost their homes and family members. Rebuilding will take time and resources. Yet, the crisis is largely out of the news. No, it’s not the Los Angeles fires. We’re talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina in September, and residents have been picking up the […]
It is hard not to view the latest film by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) as intentionally correcting the perplexity Timothy Garton Ash writes about in his Stasi-haunted memoir, The File: “If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person.” Being so understanding that one cannot understand so much as […]
Among all creatures with the capacity to be cartoonified, the canine can express the most while saying the least. That Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig speak with such verbosity is arguably a sign of the relative inexpressiveness of rabbits, ducks, and pigs. By contrast, the great animated dogs can communicate empathy, amusement, contempt, […]
A popular New Yorker cartoon published around the time of the first Trump election features an angry-looking man on a plane saying, “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” Drawing the obvious analogy between the plane and the country, the cartoon is in fact […]
President Biden on Friday announced he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses as one of his last major moves just days before leaving office. Biden said the individuals receiving commutations are “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and...
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security will face her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, where illegal immigration is likely to be a top topic.