Recent Columns

Five Pinocchios for Gavin Newsom
April 19, 2024 by Joe Guzzardi
Add California Governor Gavin Newsom’s name to the list of prominent elected officials who blatantly lied about their personal histories. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been a Vietnam war combatant...
Sell the house: Top ten cartoons of the week
April 18, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
The cost of everything, from gas to groceries, remains stubbornly high. Home prices skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic, and inflation fears forced interest rates to rise...
Rest in peace: Truth-teller Bob Graham, who defied Iraq war fever
April 18, 2024 by Dick Polman
How sad it is that few Americans have heard of Bob Graham, who died Tuesday at 87, because this guy was truly a profile in courage when we needed it most...
‘Hating America, 101’ – a course for homegrown terrorists?
April 18, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan “Death to Israel! �� It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran...
What you might have forgotten about OJ Simpson and his trial
April 17, 2024 by Elwood Watson
For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...
A run down to London
April 17, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
England! Glorious England! I’ve been in London for the past month, officially as part of a study abroad program. When traveling, the usual questions come up. What’s the currency exchange rate?..
Ready for the bathroom of tomorrow?
April 17, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on your complexion or facial tics...
OJ Simpson’s death is an opportunity for us all
April 15, 2024 by Christine Flowers
I’m pretty sure that the number of people who are mourning the death of OJ Simpson can fit into the trunk of the smallest car Hertz ever rented. As a human being, I am repulsed by the fact that he treated women like a punching bag...
Take our daughters and sons to grandma’s
April 15, 2024 by Tom Purcell
"Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is on April 25th, and I think we should try something different this year: Let's take our daughters and sons to grandma's...
Good or bad economy? Top 10 cartoons of the week
April 11, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
It's not exactly news we're a divided country, but we can't even agree on whether our economy is doing well or not. In fact, the U...
Trump’s abortion punt
April 11, 2024 by Dick Polman
An adjudicated rapist, who was recently held liable by a jury for physically invading a woman’s bodily autonomy, has now taken it upon himself to opine about how government can control women’s bodily autonomy...
Republicans need to unite, not fight
April 11, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington...
Losing sleep over sleep
April 10, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
I’ve spent a lot of time on the couch. Where most children graduate from a little bed to a bigger one, I graduated to one of those foldable couches where you can keep things beneath the seat. I barely feel those tennis rackets...
Biden wrong to oppose Nippon Steel Deal
April 10, 2024 by Phil Kerpen
The state visit by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida isn't just about tea and photo ops.. The deal is a win-win for American workers and shareholders.. The market roared its approval. Joe Biden's knee-jerk opposition to the deal sent U...
Will you still need me, will you still feed me?
April 10, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! (My so-called “good” cholesterol has not exactly overperformed in helping me reach these milestones...
Defending higher education against cynical politics
April 9, 2024 by Elwood Watson
Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s...
Outpatient decluttering
April 8, 2024 by Jase Graves
Because I’m a professional practitioner of the pedagogical arts (known in some parts as fancy book learnin’), I’m privileged to enjoy a Spring Break holiday that usually falls during the same week my semi-grown daughters are also out of school..
In tribute to the insight and longevity of Gloria Steinem
April 8, 2024 by Christine Flowers
Gloria Steinem turned 90 years old last month. �� The thinking goes that unless you call yourself a feminist, people will send you back to the kitchen, forcibly impregnate you and hide your shoes. Gloria, however, is not...
A good month to prevent distracted driving
April 8, 2024 by Tom Purcell
“It wasn't my fault the car in front of me hit me. �� “How could the car in front of you hit you? Yet the cops wrote me up for texting while driving!..
Wall Street giddy over mass migration
April 5, 2024 by Joe Guzzardi
A direct relationship exists between high immigration levels and the phone research of pro-expansionists, which insists immigrants are making a significant fiscal contribution to the economy...
Eclipse time: Top ten cartoons of the week
April 4, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
On Monday, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, a momentary break from the bad news we've all be drowning in the past few months. Unfortunately, the eclipse will only last a few hours...
Who’s going to save America’s soul?
April 4, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan Lent is over – and I’m kind of sorry...
Don’t compare Trump’s social media post to Kathy Griffin
April 4, 2024 by Dick Polman
The Bible salesman deemed it a Christian gesture last week to retweet some MAGA moron’s depiction of the president of the United States trussed like a turkey in the back of a manly pickup truck...
One again, Republicans are politicizing a tragedy
April 3, 2024 by Elwood Watson
Leave it to the right to make a cheap attempt to capitalize off human tragedy. Americans across the political spectrum expressed their sorrow and prayers toward the victims and their families...
One for the road
April 3, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
I just finished “Democracy in America,” which is a book by a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville on… well, it’s in the title. Watson of the duo, only without a mustache, sailed to the United States to check out its capital attractions...
Are you a fan of noisy restaurants?
April 3, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! According to the article, in 2023, audio data from the app SoundPrint found that 63 percent of restaurants are too loud for conversation...
Born in Baltimore and moved by the bridge disaster
April 1, 2024 by Christine Flowers
I was born in Baltimore at the end of 1961. Both of them were down there on borrowed time: My father was finishing up his last year at the University of Maryland, College Park, and my mother found a job as a bank teller...
Insights from great minds on Taxes
April 1, 2024 by Tom Purcell
Wise and witty thoughts are the only things that bring me any solace during tax-filing season — thoughts, such as these: “The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. The taxidermist takes only your skin...
Trump trials: Top ten cartoons of the week
March 29, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
It's hard to satirize the news and Donald Trump with headlines like, "Ex-president selling bibles to help pay legal cost of porn star hush money trial...
East Palestinians see red over Biden’s politics
March 28, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan This week must have been especially rough for the people still living in the contaminated eastern Ohio town of East Palestine...