I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.