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October 6, 2017

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7 brutally funny cartoons about William Barr's handling of the Mueller report

7 brutally funny cartoons about William Barr's handling of the Mueller report

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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Joe Biden's handsy controversy
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7 brutally funny cartoons about the Mueller report's fallout
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5 scathing cartoons about Trump's never-ending feud with John McCain
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5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's flag hug
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7 hilariously brutal cartoons about Michael Cohen's congressional testimony

7 hilariously brutal cartoons about Michael Cohen's congressional testimony

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5 scathingly funny cartoons about the Democrats' crowded 2020 field
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7 scathing cartoons about the Democrats' scandals in Virginia
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7 scaldingly funny cartoons about Howard Schultz 2020
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7 brutally funny cartoons about the Trump-Pelosi shutdown feud
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Theresa May's Brexit collapse
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7 brutally funny cartoons about the Trump shutdown
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5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's wall
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7 scathing cartoons about the Texas ObamaCare ruling
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's government shutdown threat
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7 cartoons honoring George H.W. Bush
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7 blistering cartoons about Trump's climate change denial
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7 scathing cartoons about the politicization of California's wildfires
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7 brutally funny cartoons about the Democrats' House victory

7 brutally funny cartoons about the Democrats' House victory

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7 blistering cartoons about the fabricated caravan 'crisis'
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7 scathing cartoons about the politics of the migrant caravan
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7 scathing cartoons about the U.N.'s climate-change report
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7 brutally funny cartoons about the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation
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7 scathing cartoons about the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing
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7 blistering cartoons about the Brett Kavanaugh allegations
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7 scathing cartoons about the politics of hurricanes
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5 brutally funny cartoons about Bob Woodward's new Trump book
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7 scathing cartoons about Trump's petty response to John McCain's death
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Cohen and Manafort's downfall
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7 unhinged cartoons tackling Omarosa's media frenzy
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7 devastating cartoons about Trump's Donald Jr.-Russia meeting tweet
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5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's new collusion defense

5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's new collusion defense

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7 savage cartoons tackling the Trump-Iran Twitter war
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about the disastrous Trump-Putin presser
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination
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6 brutally hilarious cartoons about Scott Pruitt's resignation
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Anthony Kennedy's retirement
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7 brutal cartoons about America's family separation crisis
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7 scathingly hilarious cartoons about the Trump-Kim summit
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's 'self-pardon'
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Roseanne's downfall
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's investigation of the Mueller probe
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7 explosively funny cartoons about Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
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6 scathingly funny cartoons about the White House Correspondents' Dinner
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Emmanuel Macron's White House visit

7 brutally funny cartoons about Emmanuel Macron's White House visit

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7 scathingly funny cartoons about James Comey's publicity tour
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7 brutally funny cartoons about Paul Ryan's early retirement
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's trade war
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7 scathingly funny cartoons about the Facebook data scandal
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7 savagely funny cartoons about the White House pandemonium
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9 brutally hilarious cartoons about Trump's trade war
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7 merciless cartoons about Jared Kushner's security-clearance demotion
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Wit and wisdom from Alice Munro, James Baldwin, and more
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Wit and wisdom from Susan Sontag, Emily Dickinson, and more
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7 scathing cartoons about Congress' subservience to the NRA
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Wit and wisdom from Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and more
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7 hilarious Olympics-themed political cartoons
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Wit and wisdom from Ursula K. Le Guin, Lou Holtz, and more
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about Trump's military parade obsession
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Wit and wisdom from Masha Gessen, Douglas Adams, and more
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7 totally ruthless cartoons about the Nunes memo drama
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about Washington's topsy-turvy immigration debate
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Wit and wisdom from Germaine de Staël, Muhammad Ali, and more
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Wit and wisdom from Elvis Presley, Laura Dern, and more

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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about President Trump's health report
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about liberals' Oprah mania
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Wit and wisdom from Daniel Alarcón, Ogden Nash, and more
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about President Trump's 'much bigger' nuclear button
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Wit and wisdom from Zadie Smith, Judy Blume, and more
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11 hilarious Christmas-themed political cartoons
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Wit and wisdom from Carrie Fisher, Daniel Day-Lewis, and more
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9 brutally hilarious cartoons about the GOP's Alabama shocker
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Wit and wisdom from Fernando Pessoa, Tina Fey, and more

Wit and wisdom from Fernando Pessoa, Tina Fey, and more

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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about the GOP's misguided move on Roy Moore
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Wit and wisdom from Elizabeth Gilbert, Margaret Mead, and more
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9 brutally hilarious cartoons about America's political perverts
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Wit and wisdom from Jack Kerouac, Annie Proulx, and more
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Wit and wisdom from Mary Oliver, Eldridge Cleaver, and more
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7 hilarious Thanksgiving-themed political cartoons
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Wit and wisdom from Zora Neale Hurston, Barack Obama, and more
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9 brutally hilarious cartoons about the winners and losers of the GOP's tax plan
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Wit and wisdom from Thomas Edison, Mary Shelley, and more

Wit and wisdom from Thomas Edison, Mary Shelley, and more

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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about the elephant in the voting booth
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Wit and wisdom from Leonard Bernstein, Annie Dillard, and more
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about President Trump's increasingly pesky Russia problem
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Wit and wisdom from John Muir, Joan Didion, and more
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7 brutally hilarious cartoons about Hillary's Trump dossier backfire
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