Humor & Cartoons
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Your iCloud Storage Is Full! Here’s Why
Pictures of your pets, hundreds of voice memos, thousands of accidental screenshots, and other items of questionable value.
By Ginny Hogan and Julia Edelman
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Influencers I’d Actually Want Influencing Me
Jeremy Allen White doing literally anything.
By Irving Ruan and Ellis Rosen
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Answers to “Where Are You From?,” Translated
“The City”: New York City, obviously. “New York City”: I grew up in Seattle and moved to Brooklyn two months ago.
By Tom Ellison
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Bot Therapy
He was a widower who had lost his wife to cancer and his only son in a hideous boating accident. He worked in a bunker in Paris. I took the bait.
By Mary Norris
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Conciliatory Trophies for Millennials
Advanced skin care, free shipping, and more.
By Eugenia Viti
Cartoon Caption Contest
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Daily Cartoons
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“The first few minutes were coherent, but he recovered nicely.”
Cartoon by Paul Noth
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“A high of ninety-five, but with the panic index we’re looking at a RealFeel of eleventy squillion.”
Cartoon by Emily Flake
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“What kinds of things can we expect establishment Republicans to strongly object to before completely embracing in a second Trump Administration?”
Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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“And, again, sir, I’m so sorry that I called you America’s Hitler, and so relieved that you took it as a compliment.”
Cartoon by Paul Noth
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“Winter? But you just wished for it to be summer!”
Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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“No good beach reads.”
Cartoon by Ellis Rosen
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Cartoon by Ali Solomon
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Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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“It used to be a lot easier to ignore soccer.”
Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers
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“Though the heat wave will break, you won’t notice a difference because it’ll still be hot.”
Cartoon by Sarah Kempa
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Cartoon by Stephen Raaka
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“Is it the Fourth of July already?!”
Cartoon by P. C. Vey
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“It’s so nice to get out of the city! So much space—and yet it still feels like we’re being watched? Like a horror movie? Or that true-crime podcast we listened to on the drive up? When are we leaving again?”
Cartoon by Emily Bernstein
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“That’s the last time I let you set up the umbrella.”
Cartoon by Dan Misdea
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“Picnic season!”
Cartoon by Dabin Han
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Citius, Altius, Fortius
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Olympic Events I Would Definitely Win (If They Existed)
Cancelling plans, Facebook stalking, and more.
By Jason Adam Katzenstein and Avi Steinberg
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I Like Sports
My favorite thing about sports is that they give me an acceptable way to express my feelings in a patriarchal culture that views expressions of male emotion as weak.
By Ethan Kuperberg
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Olympic Story Lines to Watch
Can the U.S. men’s basketball team win yet another gold medal or will they settle for gold? Can Michael Phelps defeat his goatee once and for all?
By Colin Jost
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Necessary Changes to the Olympics Because of COVID
The relay baton must be sanitized between handoffs, and medals come with complimentary sourdough starter.
By Al Mullen and Dani Alvarez
Comics
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A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten
It’s good to know pi to at least twenty decimal places, in case a math sergeant ever asks you to drop and give them twenty digits of pi.
By Adam Douglas Thompson
Sketchbook
Mort Gerberg: The Person Who Pushes the Pen
A comic précis of the illustrious life of the longtime New Yorker cartoonist.
By Sofia Warren
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We Regret to Inform You That You’re Still Just a Person
Congratulations on your Pulitzer! Unfortunately, the automated D.M.V. queue doesn’t care for nuanced storytelling.
By Annah Feinberg
More Humor
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My Strict Morning Routine
Before getting up, I like to lie under the covers for thirty minutes meditating, which is really just a fancy word for “falling back asleep.”
By Graeme Carey
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden
What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?
By Bryn Durgin
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A Brief History of Our Family-Owned Chip Company
It all started when Daddy bought too many potatoes.
By Brandon Follick and Rima Parikh
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Reading “The Power Broker” Has Changed My Life
I’ve also found that the book works great as a tofu press or a yoga block.
By Blythe Roberson
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Parents in a Chain
The great zucchini-bread disaster of 2024 and other mishaps, on a group text of moms and dads after the library bake sale.
By Jay Martel
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America!: Republican Vice-Presidential Candidates Compete for Trump’s Favor in the Thunderdome
It’s the same as the real world, but more steampunk—so, worse.
By Ali Fitzgerald
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Self-Help Books from Ancient Times
“The Ultimate Detox from Feudalism,” “Stop Overthinking and Start Impaling,” and other gems.
By Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
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Six Eerie Predictions That Early Sci-Fi Authors Got Completely Wrong
The Turbo Fridge, a shoe that does your taxes, and other future-tech that never came to be.
By Sean McGowan