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Developers have created apps that scan grocery and clothing items for people who want to make sure they are not buying American. The top app, BrandSnap, even suggests European alternatives.

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Who you gonna believe, Trump or your own eyes? Trump claims he knew nothing of the image, which was posted by the White House on X and by his own Truth Social account.

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The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?

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The toll in Russian blood is stunning. It's also interesting to see the civilian roles left void as Putin's draftees are slaughtered on the battlefield.

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The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility. Bringing Alcatraz up to modern-day standards would require massive investments as the Bureau of Prisons has been shuttering prisons for similar issues.

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(Gift article) Fascinating. To efficiently and accurately compare nations, you’d ideally have some sort of globe-spanning colossus with experts on the ground helping to collect data everywhere from Angola to Zambia. You’d have, in other words, the World Bank.

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If someone asks the president of the United States if he needs to uphold the Constitution and the answer he gives is "I don't know," we have a very big problem.

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The trend is certain to accelerate with the Trump administration's assault on mainstream journalism, its move to claw back funding for NPR and PBS and its prioritizing hyperpartisan “new media” in the White House press briefings.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – a military hero and hawk – disengaged from Gaza in 2005. Beyond the unsustainable economic strain, the purpose of Sharon's withdrawal was to improve Israel's security and international status in the absence of peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

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“Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Monday.

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Victims are not faceless. Three-year-old Suzanna Cohen was arrested in July 1942 and deported to Auschwitz. She was gassed right after selection.

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Enjoy the show. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Enter the Runway, the Circus” (1899).

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Austrian editorial cartoonist Leopard Maurer weighs in on Trump announcing he will reopen Alcatraz. The prison was shut down in 1963, due to prohibitive operational costs and the deteriorating physical condition of the facility.

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Italian editorial cartoonist Thomas Campi asks Americans if they can spot the differences.

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Editorial cartoonist Dennis Goris titles his illustration “Felons Gonna Felon,” suggesting the death of liberty in America is happening in the sunlight.

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Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall captures the spirit of Trump’s Cabinet meetings, which always open with a nauseating round of flattery to the chief.

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Editorial cartoonist John Deering weighs in on Trump’s stunning admission that he doesn’t feel compelled to abide by the U.S. Constitution.

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Editorial cartoonist Matt Davies weighs in on Trump’s cavalier attitude about throwing the country into a recession — and his habitual blaming of President Biden for his self-inflicted wounds.

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Wicked humor.

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Incredible.

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Unhappy returns. Russian communities are facing a surge in crimes from both returning veterans and criminals using the war to get out of jail. But in Putin’s new Russia, soldiers are the new heroes, and tough wartime censorship laws leave little room to criticize them.

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Price hike roundup.

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So much to digest. But what stuck out beyond his vow to take over Canada, blaming Biden for the country's recent economic woes and suggesting he might seek a third term, was an American president saying he "didn't know" if he would uphold the U.S. Constitution.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits this amounts to a trade embargo, even to the point of saying it's unsustainable. Which, of course, raises the question: Why did Trump initiate a strategy that cannot be sustained?

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Citing “a shameless record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row,” Gov. George Ryan, a moderate Republican who, like most Americans, had long favored capital punishment, defended his decision to suspend the death penalty in Illinois as an act of conscience.

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Some agreement between Trump supporters and Democrats. Americans are increasingly skeptical about the concept, both in whether the country can live up to its ideals or whether it can help its citizens fulfill their own personal goals.

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Texas has seen a recent rise in book bans, with the Lone Star State issuing 625 bans during the 2022-23 academic year. The election fell on the same day that GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed new legislation making more than 5 million students eligible to receive state funds for private school education.

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Trump, in response to expected empty shelves: "Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."

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When democracy dies. Emil Rudolf Weiß’s “Erna Petri Reading” (1929). Popular during the Weimar Republic, Weiß was stripped of his teaching credential and had his work declared degenerate when the Nazis took power.

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Everybody in step. Turkish photographer Fatih Çindemir’s “Marching Magpie” (Ankara, Turkey, 2020).

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Mentoring.

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Editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers wonders how long Trump — who inherited a robust economy — will blame President Biden for his self-inflicted and costly missteps.

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Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Oleksiy Kustovsky sees an ominous undertone in Trump posting an AI-produced image of himself as the pope.

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Switzerland-based editorial cartoonist Shahid Atiqullah notes that one of the first actions taken by authoritarian leaders is to muzzle the press. Fearing for his life, Atiqullah fled Afghanistan’s Taliban regime.

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Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich questions the competency of former Fox & Friends host turned defense secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez weighs in on RFK Jr.’s impact on the nation’s health.

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Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen maps out Trump’s impact on key U.S. allies.

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The Justice Department will no longer protect people’s right to cast ballots and instead has redefined its mission to pursue conspiracy theories pushed by Trump to explain away his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

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The five stood on top of the plane and were "surrounded by alligators that came within three metres of us," said pilot Andres Velarde, adding that he believed petrol leaking from the plane had kept the predators at bay. They also saw an anaconda in the water, he said.

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A gathering storm. Targeting federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s effort to dramatically expand his authority. As Trump and his allies call for judges to be impeached or attack them as “radical left” political foes, the families of judges are being singled out for harassment.

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Who says Trump isn't a unifier? Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over Trump’s disruptive trade war and its impact on the close U.S. military ally.

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Amazon says it only "considered the idea of listing import (tariff) charges on certain products." However, other retailers both big and small are taking the opposite tack and showing Americans exactly how much Trump's tariffs are adding to their product costs.

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It's not only car prices that will increase. Will auto insurance rates follow the lead of homeowner policies, which are going up as Trump's tariffs raise the prices of replacement materials and appliances?

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Many European members of NATO, and the U.S.' northern neighbor, Canada, have watched on with some horror at the foreign policy stance adopted by senior Trump officials, warming up relations with the Kremlin.

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How do you see yourself? Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s “Self-portrait with Comb” (1926). A Jew, von Motesiczky fled Austria after Hitler’s “Anschluss" and found safety in England.

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Troubling? The White House this morning posted an AI-generated image of Trump depicted as the leader of the Catholic Church. This isn’t Trump’s Truth Social propaganda platform. This is a tax-payer funded U.S. government website.

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Cartoonist Farley Katz questions the wisdom of the Trump administration’s assault on science.

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Belgian editorial cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker weighs in on Trump’s trade war as U.S. consumers brace for higher prices and shortages, and employers warn of impending layoffs.

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Editorial cartoonist William Brown reacts to the Trump administration killing a program that tracks thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

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Getting distracted can lead to calamitous consequences.

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