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Mending Table

Jul 14, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous adult kneeling beside a kitchen table and gathering pieces of a cracked bowl into a tray while another adult sits apart and a thin faded yellow thread runs from the bowl to the repair work.

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Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous gardener clutching a green pear on a bending orchard branch while a helper holds a watering can beside dry roots and other workers tend trees beneath a rain cloud. — Orchard Grip Jul 13, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous ferry captain gripping a tiller while a passenger reaches toward a distant dock sign marked ARRIVAL and a red rope runs along the rail. — The Tiller Jul 13, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous worker handing a large trophy through a dark community-center counter while open double doors reveal an indoor walking loop marked by a muted green threshold line. — The Trophy Case Jul 10, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous payer at a MINIMUM DUE window while a green path leads to a darker NEXT MONTH counter where another figure receives an INTEREST envelope. — Minimum Door Jul 9, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a person holding a rose-gold YES card between a FOR THEM door with someone waiting at a table and a FOR ME door with a mirror, applause marks, and a spotlight. — Whose Yes Jul 8, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing household chores sliding down a tilted floor marked NO OWNER toward an anonymous figure wearing a DEFAULT OWNER apron. — House Gravity Jul 5, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous person in bed holding a glowing phone while a clock-headed clerk hands a red BORROWED HOUR ticket toward a tired morning figure standing in a doorway. — Borrowed Hour Jul 4, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous adult leaving through an open kitchen door with a BOUNDARY shield while a foreground empty chair tagged NO PLAN is tied by a red thread to another adult holding a CARE ROTA clipboard beside an older relative, medicines, and a walker. — Care Rota Jul 3, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a faceless waiter sliding a check labeled THE TAB to ordinary diner customers while a glowing server-rack booth under a NEW POWER sign sits behind them with stacked plates and a red ink trail. — The Tab Jul 2, 2026

A courthouse records counter holds an oversized ledger and four labeled trays for alleged, seized, settled, and recovered money while anonymous figures sort papers under a red question mark thread. — The Sorting Counter Jul 1, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a factory time clock beside a doorway with its punch-card slot opened like an evidence drawer, a worker silhouette at the threshold, and a ledger-shaped shadow stretching across the floor. — The Minute Drawer Jun 30, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an outdoor warning siren sending a yellow signal into a dark blank public instruction frame while a small radio and phone sit below it. — After The Tone Jun 29, 2026

Black ink editorial cartoon of a lock-shaped glass display case holding a lit patent model, with a half-turned paper key and anonymous public viewers behind a rail. — Claim Check Jun 28, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a hat-wearing suited man with a cigar gripping a public payphone while flicking a coin into the coin slot on a late-twentieth-century New York street corner, with a diner, cars, hotdog stand, pedestrians, apartment windows, and an artificial firmament opening above the city. — Call From Above Jun 27, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a plain gum pack crossing a checkout scanner as a red beam projects its barcode into huge black bars across an empty wall, with a blank receipt curling in the foreground. — Shadow Price Jun 26, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an oversized orange traffic cone in a dark crosshatched road work zone, with smaller cones guiding a lane around a repair truck and patched pavement. — Borrowed Lane Jun 25, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a giant medicine-bottle cap as a checkpoint gate on a crosshatched pharmacy shelf, with a shopper pulling a red torn tamper-evident strip. — Break Seal Jun 24, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a brass survey disk anchoring public maps and papers on a rain-wet courthouse sidewalk while a survey tripod stands in shallow floodwater. — Ground Truth Jun 23, 2026

Black-and-white editorial cartoon showing an oversized blank catalog card bridging a gap from a card catalog drawer to library shelves while a small magnifying-glass figure waits to cross. — Quiet Filing Jun 22, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a curb ramp shaped like a signed document marked ACCESS, with a wheelchair wheel and cane at the sidewalk edge. — Curb Appeal Jun 21, 2026

Black-and-white editorial cartoon showing an old fire-insurance map pressed into a paper city by an underwriting stamp press on a city records counter, with one muted red hazard block. — Premium Memory Jun 20, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a grocery meat counter staged like an interrogation, with a fictional PASSED stamp on a wrapped steak under a lamp, a separate GRADE shield, and a detective-like shopper saying the marbling is exquisite. — Prime Suspect Jun 18, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a fire escape labeled PUBLIC SAFETY bolted to a brick wall marked PRIVATE WALL, with a red INSPECTION tag tied to a loose bolt above an empty sidewalk. — Escape Clause Jun 16, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a giant parking meter shaped like a small city hall at an empty curb, with a red expired flag and labels for curb, public time, fines, and city hall. — The Meter Jun 7, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a freight train holding down a railroad-crossing gate shaped like a measuring ruler, blocking a school bus, ambulance, van, tractor, and car while the gate labels time, access, safety, money, local memory, and public record. — The Ruler of the Road Jun 4, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a fire marshal waving repeated warnings at a committee that studies possible combustion while the hearing room burns and a sensitive alarm hangs overhead. — Blowing Smoke Jun 3, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a large balance scale weighing a dense city full of mailboxes against a small rural mailbox at the start of a winding country road. — Post Malonely Jun 3, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a county election mailroom where ballot envelopes pass through a large machine labeled BALLOT MAIL while a citizenship list feeds in beside a correction path tag and state law stamp. — Goin' Postal Jun 1, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing officials and workers facing an open book labeled Energy Code as a yellow sunset lowers over power lines, pipes, and industrial energy facilities. — Sunset Powerplant May 31, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing children, reporters, and officials watching a glowing museum display labeled Current Crisis, while older exhibits labeled Y2K, Mayan 2012, Population Bomb, and Peak Oil sit under a sign for the Museum of Expired Catastrophes. — Hit After Hit May 29, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a Treasury auction block with a 10-year note, an auction gavel, bidders, warplanes and tankers outside, and a red signal driving a WAR PREMIUM gauge weighted by INFLATION and DEBT SERVICE. — Warbonds May 28, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a split nineteenth-century and modern immigration patronage scene, with elites on a blue-draped balcony above officials handing documents and phones to waiting families. — Human Resources May 27, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing families leaving an evacuated neighborhood beside a fence line, while hazmat workers monitor a cracked MMA tank whose warning-yellow fracture casts public cost across the boundary. — On the Fence May 26, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a boarded-up storefront labeled Learing Center in a cracked city block, with barred gates, a leaning utility pole, and an overturned shopping cart. — Learing Center May 24, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing protesters with signs against oil and for the planet beside a fenced federal property lot, where a bureaucrat holding a permit denied folder confronts a construction worker near pipe sections, wildlife, and industrial ruins. — Net Zero Prosperity May 22, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a man feeding papers into a shredder labeled PRIVATE CHANNELS over a pit labeled NO RECORD while a woman holds an empty box labeled PUBLIC MEMORY. — Memory Hole May 21, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing officials labeled Stormwater, Agriculture, Wastewater, Dams, Development, and Climate Office managing The Oxygen Budget above a river cross-section where fish swim beneath a declining blue Remaining Oxygen line. — Beneficial Use May 20, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a supermarket cashier asking a customer to show papers while scanning a roll of duct tape with a red checkout light. — Papers, please. May 19, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing people kneeling before a marble altar holding a consent form stamped CONSENTED, with a plaque reading PERMISSION = PURITY and shadowed figures labeled Duty, Wisdom, Obligation, and Formation. — The Altar of Consent May 18, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing Uncle Sam kneeling before a blindfolded tribunal labeled The System, with a consensus device on the bench, a case file reading Case No. 1776: Failure to Diversify, and a chaotic city visible through the window. — Diverse Consensus May 17, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing officials cutting a yellow ribbon at a data center while the ribbon continues as a drainpipe discharging dark water into a river beside a man holding a Clean Water Act folder. — Not My River, Not My Problem May 15, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing customers queued at a counter where a postal worker-pharmacist places a mifepristone prescription envelope between bins labeled Mail Order and Pickup beneath signs for Take a Number, Now Serving, and Pharmacy. — Delivering the Goods May 14, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing Uncle Sam at a Free Speech podium while a uniformed official with a PC armband marks his speech bubble with red censor strokes beside a Ministry of Correctness door and a Rephrase stamp. — Rephrase That May 13, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a cobalt blue porcelain current crossing a world map on a ship table from a Jingdezhen kiln through trade routes, Meissen, Chinamania, and a china cabinet to a plate stamped Made in China. — Made in China May 12, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing travelers buying exit tickets from a snake vendor in a lush garden, beside a travel poster and a closed Garden of Eden gate opening onto an industrial wasteland guarded by a winged child holding a fiery sword. — See the World May 11, 2026

Political cartoon showing a public works employee rolling blue coating across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool while algae pours from a cracked pipe labeled Deferred Maintenance and protesters hold signs reading Preserve the Neglect and Authentic Algae. — Algae-Fueled Fever Dreams May 10, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing anxious students and a professor outside a Campus R Us storefront with a Finals Week Liquidation banner while private-equity figures wheel away a glowing Canvas server into a Leveraged Buyout Express truck. — Campus R Us May 8, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a massive grid switchboard drawing yellow lightning from a tower labeled SKY POWER and sending electric lines to signs for NIGHT WORK, HOME LIGHT, and FARM LINE. — Modern Prometheus May 7, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a worker asking a factory owner for a lump of coal while the factory burns coal behind him and a cold family waits in a dark room. — Lump of Coal May 6, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing ICE officers in a detention dining hall treating a detainee request for pepper as a use-of-force report, with a pepper spray can on a tray and red warning labels on the report and can. — Pass the Pepper May 5, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a clinician holding a mirror toward a seated woman, whose reflection shows several versions of herself, while shadowed figures observe and write behind a dark window. — Let me show you May 4, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing blindfolded figures examining a document-covered elephant surrounded by public records, donor letters, bank files, subpoenas, court filings, and source files, with speech bubbles naming Nazis, racists, bigots, alphabet-phobes, and the SPLC. — Who Paid the Nazis? May 4, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a family on the shore facing a tick-like creature in the water while officials guard a restricted island with a chained file cabinet, floating denied and negative forms, and signs for Lyme, Old Lyme, Nothing to See Here, and a restricted federal disease site. — When Life Gives You May 3, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a public-duty threshold separating a classified briefing room from a prediction market booth while suited figures pass betting slips across it. — Just Part of the Game May 1, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a vintage desktop computer displaying a spreadsheet with a smokestack rising from a highlighted green cell and smoke forming a skull above the monitor. — Excellent work. Apr 30, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing faceless judges with halos using drafting compasses to draw blue congressional district lines across a cracked map while voters holding papers wait at the edge of the room. — Very Fine Lines on Both Sides Apr 30, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing tankers moving through a narrow strait under a fiery red sky while armed silhouettes watch from the shoreline. — Lines of Fire Apr 29, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a small plant sealed under a cracked glass cloche, with dark crosshatching around it and red fractures running down into the roots. — Cloched for Business Apr 28, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing an EPA approval stamp landing on FIFRA paperwork for weedkiller while a magnifying glass exposes a warning label, with cancer claims, misbranding, farm use, and a state jury gathered around the scene. — Certified safe? Apr 27, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a phone reading TEHRAN - SENT TO VOICEMAIL beside sanctions papers, a locked blockade over the Strait of Hormuz, tankers, and a public-costs chart for oil, jet fuel, and shipping. — Strait to Voicemail Apr 26, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a presidential hand pressing a glowing CUT RATES button labeled PROMISE DELIVERY while green-lit cables tangle through inflation, FOMC, credibility, markets, employment, and public trust machinery toward a locked INTEREST RATES lever before a Federal Reserve committee. — Pull the lever! Apr 25, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a crowded general immigration intake line beside a guarded Gold Card entrance, where a wealthy family with luggage and a gold card passes a $1 million cover charge sign toward a luxury skyline. — Who Do You Know Here? Apr 24, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a laughing businessman cutting off a power line to desperate people while a giant AI data center and smoking industrial towers consume the electricity behind him. — Feeding the Machine Apr 23, 2026

Officials cut a ribbon beside a wet urban brook while cracked old sewer pipes discharge beneath the street. — The Sewer Under the Sidewalk Apr 22, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a young singer at a microphone under the title 'Romantic Homicide,' with viral-media attention on one side and police tape, case files, and investigators on the other. — Did you really mean what you said? Apr 17, 2026

Editorial cartoon showing a student thinking outside the box, with the thought breaking through the frame. — Think Outside the Box Apr 16, 2026

Black-and-white editorial cartoon showing political and financial figures seated around a casino poker table. — The House Always Wins Apr 16, 2026

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