Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates — all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up ...

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One would think that a thirteen-and-a-half-minute supercut of Daffy Duck laughing maniacally would get repetitive, but the Warner Bros. animators never seem to run out of ideas. For each one of ...

Art Young, Henry Glintenkamp and their colleagues at “The Masses” were eventually acquitted, but this WWI-era victory for freedom of the press was dampened when the Postal Service shut down the ...

One of my friends commented, as I was gushing over my Kindle, that one of its drawbacks was that nobody can see what you're reading. How, he wondered, can you impress people on the train with your ...

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Ever wish your daily doomscrolling came with a little more joy and a lot more terrible wordplay? I’ve got you covered. Hi! I’m Lisa from LEFD Designs, an Australian illustrator and graphic designer ...

Coping strategies for anxiety include many things, but one thing that's sure to help is indulging in some humor—which we just ...