This cartoon is based on the AP story entitled “Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands” that was published recently. (It’s a long pi...
https://jensorensen.com/2024/02/07/prison-labor-food-cartoon/
This cartoon was inspired by recent events at Harvard, but the same dynamic is happening at many universities. Harvard’s behavior is shameful, allowing a petty tyrant to rule the university wit...
https://jensorensen.com/2024/01/10/billionaire-university-harvard-gay/
Last week Bill Maher posted an extended screed against the Barbie movie, calling it “preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie,” the Zombie Lie being that patriarchy still exists. According to Ma...
https://jensorensen.com/2023/08/16/bill-maher-barbie-movie-patriarchy-cartoon/
It kind of blows my mind that callow internet trolls can attain public intellectual status by throwing on a sport jacket and a title at a bogus think tank. There’s an entire infrastructure on t...
In reality, universities already contain a mixture of political views — you’ll find plenty of Republicans in business schools, economics departments, and law schools (see also: Frat Row). The...
https://jensorensen.com/2023/07/26/ideological-diversity-education-epistemology-cartoon/
To be clear, I am not saying protest and activism are worthless — they are more necessary than ever. Like many people, I’m frustrated by the inertia of our institutions, and profoundly alarme...
https://jensorensen.com/2023/02/01/police-brutality-tyre-nichols-cartoon/
As this excellent column by Will Bunch explains, the organization responsible for these ads that are running during baseball playoff games on Fox Sports is a shadowy dark money group called “C...
https://jensorensen.com/2022/10/19/political-advertising-dark-money-citizens-united-cartoon/
Over and over again, we have these events that show very clearly what is happening in this country — a violent white supremacist movement spreading like wildfire, and fueled by deep-pocketed pl...
https://jensorensen.com/2022/05/22/moments-of-clarity-extremism-bothsidesism-cartoon/
This Guardian article provides a synopsis of some of the more ridiculous assertions by Carlson, Bannon, and others. And this is a good explainer on the energy issues at stake (bottom line: renew...
https://jensorensen.com/2022/03/02/bad-ukraine-takes-russia-putin/
The criminalization of protest is the biggest attack on First Amendment rights of our time, and a major part of the authoritarian playbook. This Vox article breaks down the dangerous new Oklaho...
https://jensorensen.com/2021/05/01/crushing-dissent-republican-lynching/
Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson argued that the cop who pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes behaved as “any reasonable police officer” would. Nelson’s strategy wa...
https://jensorensen.com/2021/04/27/the-defense-rests-chauvin-floyd-trial/
The despicable bills targeted at Black voters in Georgia should be the biggest news story in the country right now. And yet, in a demonstration of the power of right-wing media, it seems more p...
https://jensorensen.com/2021/03/09/more-voter-suppression-funnies-georgia-edition/