Humor & Cartoons
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Shouts & Murmurs
A Brief History of Our Family-Owned Chip Company
It all started when Daddy bought too many potatoes.
By Brandon Follick and Rima Parikh
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Shouts & Murmurs
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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Daily Cartoons
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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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Cartoon by Bob Eckstein
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“And then, for the last question, we’ll ask them to repeat the five words we gave them at the start.”
Cartoon by Robert Leighton
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“Let’s work it out on the remix.”
Cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein
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“You guys—I think we have the song of the summer!”
Cartoon by Ali Solomon
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Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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Cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh
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Cartoon by Mort Gerberg
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Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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Cartoon by Ali Solomon
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“Would everybody please stop asking me if I have any crazy plans for Flag Day?!”
Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
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Rocket’s Red Glare
Shouts & Murmurs
I Am the Fireworks Man
Hello, I am the man who’s been setting off fireworks right outside your window for the past two weeks!
By Felipe Torres Medina
Shouts & Murmurs
Ways to Eat a Pack of Ten Hot Dogs and a Pack of Eight Hot-Dog Buns Without Having Any Extra Hot Dogs Left Over
The mathematically optimal solution of four hot-dog packs and five hot-dog-bun packs does not solve the problem, as having forty hot dogs and forty hot-dog buns is undesirable for most households.
By Jonny Sun
Shouts & Murmurs
America!: A24 Acquires the Rights to a New Film About July 4th at Mar-a-Lago
Featuring talking animals, creepy children, pagan worship, witch hunts, and more.
By Ali Fitzgerald
Shouts & Murmurs
The Most American Recipes for Your Fourth of July Cookout
What to eat and drink while listening to your father-in-law talk about the Second Amendment.
By Susanna Wolff
Comics
Sketchpad
High-Roller Presidential Donor Perks
Give now to get your name on the wing of a fighter jet!
By Brendan Loper
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Sketchbook
Meet My TV Boyfriend
A wood-panelled cathode-ray television set that lived on my bed—not as much fun as it sounds!
By Emily Flake
More Humor
Shouts & Murmurs
Self-Help Books from Ancient Times
“The Ultimate Detox from Feudalism,” “Stop Overthinking and Start Impaling,” and other gems.
By Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Shouts & Murmurs
Rating Strangers in My Neighborhood
The overly friendly Trader Joe’s cashiers, the dogs in baby strollers, and more.
By Kat Tang
Shouts & Murmurs
Middle-Age Fantasies
Which is hotter? Talking geopolitics with the sexy nurse, or finding that the alluring young babysitter likes your unpublished novel?
By Yoni Brenner
Culture Desk
When Dads Cry: A Memoir in Man Tears
My wife sees it as an expression of feelings-friendly masculinity to be modelled for our two still-impressionable boys.
By David Ostow
Culture Desk
Dry Ice and Rose Petals: An Entrance Fit for the Father of the Bride
And did I mention the fireworks? Lighting your way down the aisle!
By Sanika Phawde
Culture Desk
Lying to My Dad
I’d become everything to him—a fun-house mirror, constantly contorting to fit his needs.
By Bryn DurginIllustration by Navied Mahdavian
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Alito, Roberts, and Thomas See the Sea
Summer recess for the Supremes.
By Barry Blitt
Shouts & Murmurs
It’s Time to Schedule Your Annual Friendship Checkup
What is your current employment status?
By Zoe Pearl