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As news happens, political cartoonists around the globe take up their brush pen or pencil and come up with images and often a few choice words to comment on the events of the day. Each week, The World's Carol Hills selects a group of cartoons that speak most proactively about issues in the news. For cartoons prior to June 2009, please click here.
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the week’s news through political cartoons. This week: Toyota’s faulty gas pedals, Haiti’s vulnerable children, Jacob Zuma’s 20 children, and the groundhog sees the long shadow… of a deficit.
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the week’s big stories through political cartoons. This week: Computer geeks behold as Apple releases its latest gadget: the ipad. For President Obama, one year takes its toll on the notion of “hope”. In the US, it’s bankers who are bad! In France, it’s burkas. And Toyota? It certainly didn’t use to be bad… What happened!
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the news through political cartoons. This week: Lots of hands. Some reaching out from Haiti, others reaching back in with food, medical supplies, promises of food and medical supplies, lots TV equipment and US soldiers. Also, the Google-China standoff and one year on, President Obama is no longer walking on water. He’s sinking.
Cartoonists grapple with the devastating earthquake in Haiti, expressing sadness, disbelief, and hope that the rest of the world will help Haiti rebuild.
American security officials usher in the new year with…body scans!! That prompts cartoonists to add a bit of naughtiness to the end of the naughts. Plus, the CIA still doesn’t get it and the saga of the swine flu continues.
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the week’s news through political cartoons from around the globe. This week it’s out with the old and in with the new as we begin 2010. The new in question appears to be an obsession with airport security, a shaky Iran, and an even shakier economy.
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the week’s news through political cartoons from around the globe. This week: the Earth fumes, economic giants continue to belch c02s, and Copenhagen produces an agreement that’s about as helpful as half a life raft.
The World’s Carol Hills picks out her favorite political cartoons from the past week. In this episode: polar bears float on ever-receding floating ice chunks; Copenhagen climate change delegates blow a lot of hot air; the Nobel Peace Prize winner wears Army fatigues, and the sexy new look of Tiger Woods’ golf clubs.
Yodeling imams, exhausted camels, unwanted guests, and this week at least, the most recognizable member of the world’s charismatic megafauna: Tiger.
Some unexpected images in this week’s cartoons: Oprah’s a saint, Silvio Berlusconi’s a rock star, Israeli settlements are freezing, and the most ubiquitous image on television is a pig.
President Obama’s visit to China gives cartoonists plenty to draw on this week: Beijing and Washington as buddies. Beijing and Washington as co-dependents. Beijing and Washington agreeing that it’s okay to put off any serious reduction of greenhouse gases.
In this week’s cartoons, walls in Germany come down, walls in the Middle East and Korea stay up, gaps in understanding bedevil a Mideast peace process and a maze considers a maze of alternatives in Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamed Kharzai has the last laugh in this week’s cartoons. He literally thumbs his nose at the rest of us. Meanwhile, President Obama tries to keep the embattled president on message. And, the H1N1 flu is living up to its pandemic image. It’s everywhere!
Halloween has found its way into this week’s cartoons but the scary images are not witches or goblins but pumpkins wearing face masks and sneezing trick-or-treaters. It’s the ghostly spirit of the H1N1 flu. And, the new sexy: hand sanitizers.
Balloon boy made a lasting impression on cartoonists all over the world. It conjured images as familiar as a ballooning deficit and as unusual as the Afghan election being carried away in a balloon.
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