When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

Ever wish your daily doomscrolling came with a little more joy and a lot more terrible wordplay? I’ve got you covered. Hi! I’m Lisa from LEFD Designs, an Australian illustrator and graphic designer ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...

So that’s where snowmen go in the summer! Here’s a funny cartoon about daily life! At least he didn’t follow the GPS directions into a pond. Calories don’t count at a barbecue, right? We love a good ...

Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates -- all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up ...

The animated anthology Cartoons: No Laughing Matter? is aptly named. Its eight British and American shorts offer a few chuckles, though mostly of the ironic or bitterly bleak variety. But the majority ...

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Join 350,000+ subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles. From our morning news briefing to a ...

One of my friends commented, as I was gushing over my Kindle, that one of its drawbacks was that nobody can see what you're reading. How, he wondered, can you impress people on the train with your ...