How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

In a new cartoon that may be upsetting to some viewers, Jim Carrey depicted just how miserable he thinks Abraham Lincoln would be if he could see the Republican National Convention lineup in 2020. “If ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Note: This cartoon was drawn Friday 7/12, before the abhorrent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Seems to have been a bad omen that ...

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The first problem with the “Babe Lincoln” cartoon in the January 24 edition of The Nation is it’s not funny, writes veteran media observer Larry Gross, “which as Oscar Wilde might have said, is its ...