The July 2026 cartoon depicts a figure resembling President Trump in two panels. The left shows praise for CUSMA as the best trade deal. The right shows the same figure reading a newspaper headline about declining to renew it. The visual points to a shift in position on the agreement covering Canada, the US, and Mexico.
The December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 children and six adults, renewing calls for gun control measures. Similar prior attacks at Virginia Tech and an Aurora, Colorado, theater had already prompted debate. The piece argues the NRA must confront these recurring tragedies directly rather than avoid policy responses.
Gaddafi was killed and Libya declared free in October 2011 after seven months of NATO intervention. Defense contractors expressed disappointment that the U.S. approach produced no major reconstruction contracts comparable to those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cartoon criticizes the limited financial opportunities created by the restrained U.S. role.
