Have you ever wondered where America’s political parties got their donkey and elephant mascots? Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with ...

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.” ...

Stocks were on course for a banner day amid signs of progress on inflation. The Dow rose 700 points, and the Nasdaq jumped 2% ...

When people ask what the resistance to Trump will look like this time, I hope a salient feature will be individual refusals ...

The Rev. Mike Morgan put this week’s For Heaven’s Sake to use as a great tribute to President Jimmy Carter and highlighting a wonderful part of both men’s faiths. The doctrine expressed trips up many ...

The author is a law professor, political artist, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, member of ...

That cartoon was in the great tradition of political cartoonists as the public conscience of America. It’s a tradition that stretches back to Thomas Nast’s 19th-century criticisms of the KKK, ...

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