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Commentary: Sanitizing Bugs

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen looks at political correctness at the Cartoon Network.

Sunday Morning’s Family Circus Meets Sunday Night’s True Detective in ‘Time Is A Flat Circus’

Arts, Culture & Media

Alison Bechdel Passes the Test

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Great Bands Cover their Favorite Kids’ Shows

Arts, Culture & Media
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Words

Words to live by in 2017

Culture

What are the words and images that best describe this past year? And why do some people think “whom” is obsolete?

Cartoon of Trump with hair forming Nazi salute

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz on satire in a time of Donald Trump

Culture

Lalo Alcaraz is a proud progressive, and his cartoons are in-your-face. He wants to bridge the divide in America, but not at his own expense.

Trump is coming.

A Trump-filled Christmas in cartoons

Media

‘Tis the season to take a deep breath, think about the year that’s almost nigh, and what’s ahead. A selection of cartoons from around the globe take stock.

Bad Hombres cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz responds to Donald Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ debate line

Arts

When Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz heard Donald Trump use the phrase “bad hombres” during the presidential debate, he knew it was going to be one of the lines of the night. Then he got to work.

A panel of an illustration about a woman being deported to Czech Republic

Letters are a lifeline for people in immigration detention. Here’s a project that brings those words to life

Justice

See and read what life is like in detention centers and for people who are experiencing the immigration enforcement process through a unique art initiative.

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