Humor & Cartoons
Shouts & Murmurs
Conciliatory Trophies for Millennials
Advanced skin care, free shipping, and more.
By Eugenia Viti
Shouts & Murmurs
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
Shouts & Murmurs
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
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
Cartoon Caption Contest
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Daily Cartoons
1/15
“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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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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America!
Shouts & Murmurs
Biden Defuses Geopolitical Tensions by Getting Into Prop Comedy
Things are getting mighty serious. It’s time for a paradigm shift—and a great leap.
By Ali Fitzgerald
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Midsummer Rituals of Subway Riders
Leaping over a bonfire, frolicking around a Maypole, and other things that would be less gross than what is really happening underground in N.Y.C. this summer.
By Ali Fitzgerald
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A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress
I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
By Ali Fitzgerald
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Eccentric Tycoons Who Have Ruined Things
For example, Jedediah Humble founded the Humblebrag Institute, transforming our conversational landscape.
By Ali Fitzgerald
Comics
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
Sketchpad
High-Roller Presidential Donor Perks
Give now to get your name on the wing of a fighter jet!
By Brendan Loper
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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
More Humor
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
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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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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
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Rating Strangers in My Neighborhood
The overly friendly Trader Joe’s cashiers, the dogs in baby strollers, and more.
By Kat Tang
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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