A group of figures equipped with hammers, pickaxes and a bucket labeled voucher school supplies approaches a brick building marked public education. One suited man in the foreground points forward while holding a pickaxe. The July 2026 image from Pat Bagley highlights ongoing debates over school voucher programs and their impact on traditional public schools.
Dave Whamond's cartoon captures a man resembling a political figure leaning over a desk in a classroom, suggesting a bullet-proof 400 million dollar ballroom as a fix for another school shooting. The woman at the desk sighs in response, with a green blackboard showing marks that look like bullet impacts. Tags like school shootings, national issue, security, guns, education, and bullet proof underscore the satire on misplaced priorities, where vanity projects like a top secret ballroom or Trump bunker get funding justifications, echoing build the wall rhetoric and emergency exemptions amid issues like WHCD shooting.
The cartoon shows a large bird wearing an Uncle Sam hat placing dollar bills into the beak of a smaller bird nestled with military hardware. This imagery addresses the ongoing federal budget debate where defense allocations increase while funding for social programs such as SNAP, school lunches, and healthcare faces reductions. The work responds to recent policy discussions involving figures like Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem on immigration enforcement and military matters. It underscores tensions between national security spending and domestic welfare needs as of the September 2025 publication date.
The cartoon depicts two college students in a dorm room discussing their choice of school. One states that her top pick is the institution with an endowment large enough to protect her from the government. The scene reflects ongoing tensions between universities and federal authorities over funding, campus policies, and compliance issues at schools such as Harvard and Columbia. Large endowments are portrayed as a buffer against potential cuts or regulatory pressure tied to discrimination concerns and other disputes.
The cartoon shows the John Harvard statue on campus responding to Trump administration pressure with a defiant message. Visitors including a student in Harvard apparel gather around the monument. The scene references ongoing disputes involving federal funding conditions tied to investigations at Harvard and peer institutions like Columbia. The visual highlights tensions between university traditions and external political demands on issues including DEI programs and campus climate.
