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If Sec. Trump Had a Private Email Server
July 06, 2016
I spent my annual Independence Day cheeseburger hangover in a state of humid recuperation, catching up on political news and celebrating the latest achievements of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Here’s a description of a cartoon concerning one of those ...

Trump Won’t Lose—So He’ll Have to Quit
June 08, 2016
Politics is hard, so The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give us a visual rendering of the day’s signature political controversies. The only problem is that David can’t draw, so his cartoons are word pictures—which is to say, words. Just ...

This Election Is an Endless, Sweaty TSA Line
May 25, 2016
Politics is hard, so The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give us a visual rendering of the day’s signature political controversies. The only problem is that David can’t draw, so his cartoons are word pictures—which is to say, ...

You (Yes, You!) Are Trump’s VP
May 11, 2016
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, it’s difficult to maintain a steady focus on reality. Colors, smells, and tastes are smearing together and getting harder to identify. Objects are mutating before we’ve made sense of them. The border ...

Turd-Farty? Bring It On.
April 27, 2016
When I was a kid I was addicted to Mad Libs. I would fill in every blank with some variation of my two favorite words: “toilet” and “fart.” If the prompt asked for an adjective, I would write “toilety.” For adverbs, I found ...

Panama Papers Jack Wears a Members Only Jacket
April 13, 2016
Politics is hard, so The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give us a visual rendering of the day’s signature political controversies. The only problem is that David can’t draw, so his cartoons are word pictures—which is to say, words. This ...

A Very Rubio Ending
March 16, 2016
Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s signature political ...

This Trumpzilla Cartoon Won’t Fix a Thing
March 02, 2016
Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to handily process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s signature political ...

Scalia at the Pearly Gates
February 17, 2016
© Stuart Goldenberg Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to handily process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s ...

The Iowa Caucus: A Creative Visualization
February 03, 2016
Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to handily process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s signature political ...