I did a similar March Madness cartoon last year, relating to the severe budget cuts governments were having to make because of the recession. I can’t resist the visual metaphor of the tournament brackets winnowing things down. This year, it’s about the GOP budget unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan. I’ll say this for it: it [...]

The campaign for the Republican nomination appears to be taking place in an alternative universe, one where the enormous issues confronting this country–unemployment,foreclosures,the growing wealth disparity between the rich and the rest of us, the altered economy,the shrinking safety net, education funding–don’t appear to exist. Somehow, absurd sideshows like insurance companies paying for contraception take [...]

Every once in a while an idea for a cartoon pops into my head fully formed. This happened last night while I was listening to an NPR report on Super Tuesday, which concluded that it’s now almost certain that Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination. He has more than a third of the [...]

Several factors have contributed to the recent spike in gas prices. Primarily, Iran has responded to international sanctions by threatening to cut off oil shipments to European countries. Additionally, a number of aging refineries have been taken offline by American oil companies (just a coincidence that this is happening in an election year, right?), reducing [...]

Rick Santorum, the latest not-Romney to surge in the Republican primaries and caucuses, brings with him a religious absolutism that I find positively frightening. The man might well be running for Grand Inquisitor, given his hatred of gays, his disregard for the rights of women, and his contempt for much of the advances of the [...]

Now that corporations are people and money is speech, and Superpacs funded by anonymous donors dominate campaign spending, it’s only a matter of time, I figure, before we finally can do away with the annoyance of having actual people run for office. In a perfect world, the corporate sponsors will have their lobbyists write and [...]

Poor Mitt. He just can’t quite close the deal. After the smashing victory in Florida and the large margin in Nevada, it looked as though he would cruise to the nomination. Print the wedding invitations, reserve the bridal suite and schedule the honeymoon. The GOP was going to get hitched to the Massachusetts moderate after [...]

The Facebook IPO, valued at tens of billions of dollars, is going to make some people very, very rich. Where does this incredible value come from? From the personal information that the millions of Facebook users willingly provide the dominant social networking site. Most of that data will be used to customize advertising designed to [...]

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Nick Carraway observes that “the rich are different from you and me.” Mitt Romney’s tax returns confirm it. The rich have access to deductions, evasions, loopholes and favorable rates we working stiffs can only dream of. The absurd truth is that the wages earned by those of us [...]