Political Cartoons: Vaccines, Epstein, and Chicago

In the world of politics, things can get pretty heated. Take the Senate Finance Committee, for example. They had a big meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The topic? Vaccines and the chaos at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some Republican senators who had supported Kennedy felt he was not keeping his word. They said he was making it harder for people to get the Covid-19 vaccine, which was the opposite of what he had promised. Cartoonists had a field day with this. Nick Anderson drew a funny cartoon showing Kennedy with a worm in his brain, saying, \"I'm not anti-vax! \" while Kennedy himself says, \"I am. \" It's a clever way to show how mixed up his messages are. Other cartoonists, like Walt Handelsman and Dana Summers, also made cartoons about vaccines. They showed diseases as cars heading to Florida, which is thinking about not requiring vaccines for kids. Another big topic was the news conference by women who said they were hurt by Jeffrey Epstein. They want all the files about Epstein to be made public. These files might have names of important people involved with him. President Donald Trump called this a \"hoax, \" but cartoonists like David Horsey and Mike Luckovich didn't agree. Trump also talked about sending troops to Chicago. Cartoonists like Scott Stantis, Dana Summers, and Joey Weatherford made fun of this. They drew Chicago's leaders trying to say crime is under control, but it's clear they're not being honest. Cartoonists also talked about other things. Like the rumor that Trump was dead, which wasn't true. And court decisions that went against Trump's policies on tariffs and deportations. They even made cartoons about how people care too much about their social media images, comparing it to a famous sculpture called \"The Kiss. \"