These past few Sunday mornings, when many people turn to the funnies in the Washington Post, Garry Trudeau has offered readers large doses of sanity and conscience in his invaluable Doonesbury strip.
Taking on Republican "family values", John McCain's endless war, the Bushies' war crimes problems and numbness to the use of torture--Trudeau pulls no punches and cuts straight to the heart of these issues.
Indeed, Doonesbury would be a welcome addition to the Post's editorial page--more thought-provoking, useful, and courageous than the newspaper's usual timid and wrongheaded editorials.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
These past few Sunday mornings, when many people turn to the funnies in the Washington Post, Garry Trudeau has offered readers large doses of sanity and conscience in his invaluable Doonesbury strip.
Taking on Republican “family values”, John McCain’s endless war, the Bushies’ war crimes problems and numbness to the use of torture–Trudeau pulls no punches and cuts straight to the heart of these issues.
Indeed, Doonesbury would be a welcome addition to the Post‘s editorial page–more thought-provoking, useful, and courageous than the newspaper’s usual timid and wrongheaded editorials.
Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitterKatrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to The Guardian. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.