My new strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” has been running in daily newspapers around the United States for a month now, with new papers picking it up every week. If your local paper doesn’t run it yet, you can have it sent to your mailbox every day from the United Features site.  Just go to http://comics.com/freshly_squeezed and [...]

My new comic strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” debuts in newspapers around the country on Monday. To date, no Colorado newspapers have signed up for it, so the best way to read it will be at http://Comics.com/freshly_squeezed. I think you’ll enjoy it. If you’d like your local newspaper to run it, give them a call and let [...]

Oh, how I long for that sense of national unity and purpose that prevailed after the attacks of 9/11. Nine years later, a poisonous atmosphere–composed of political gridlock, Tea Party rage, religious intolerance, and the deep, festering distrust of each other and our national institution–dominates our sensibilities and our discourse. We fight over everything: funds [...]

The great political cartoonist Paul Conrad died Saturday morning. He began his career at the Denver Post in 1950, where he won the first of three Pulitzer Prizes in 1964. That year he left the Post for the Los Angeles Times, where he worked until 1993. Conrad’s distinctive bold line perfectly complemented his combative commentary, [...]

If I weren’t so angry about it, I’d be amused by the opponents of health care reform who just don’t get what it’s like for those Americans who either can’t afford or can’t get coverage. Many of you who have health insurance through an employer or are fortunate enough to be able to buy it [...]

I’ve been having a lively conversation with one of the readers of this site about, among other things, the meaning of words. As many others have in the past, he has predicted that if I don’t like what he has to say, I will “censor” his postings, as have the Rocky Mountain News and the [...]

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It turns out that it took a lot longer than expected to produce the H1N1 vaccine; the virus doesn’t grow as fast the seasonal flu virus, so the expected tens of millions of doses are trickling in. So far, it’s been no deadlier than the seasonal flu, but the experts fear that it might mutate [...]

These days it’s hard to be more outrageous than the news. Given the increasingly hysterical attacks on the proposed health care reform, this piece, which I wrote a few weeks ago, may not be enough of an exaggeration to pass muster as satire. My fear is that the opposition will pick it up and run [...]

The Census Bureau has just released a study that shows that you are more likely not to have health insurance if you live in a state that generally votes Republican. These states (Texas is the worst, surprise, surprise) send people to Congress who oppose health care reform, and their legislatures are stingier in providing child [...]