Jen Sorensen

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Cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, Politico, and elsewhere. Formerly of The Nib. Recipient of the Herblock Prize and Berryman Award. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter at patreon.com/jensorensen or jensorensen.com/subscribe

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The Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine that gave federal agencies leeway to set rules for clean air and water was largely overlooked in the wake of the debate. But it was possibly even more apocalyptic.

Latest comic: Everything's an "experience"

Latest comic: If we invested in Human Intelligence

This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

This week's comic: Shell Game

Latest comic. Too many of our institutions, including some news outlets, have bought into this reactionary inversion of hierarchies in which dominant groups are victims.

Latest comic: Where's the crisis? (Drawn before events of last week, but still relevant!)

Meanwhile, Dems are blowing it slate.com/news-and-pol...

Latest comic: Not-so-silent Spring

I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic. This is from 2016.

A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.

Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students

RIP to the great comics historian and cartoonist Trina Robbins, who was always kind and encouraging. I'm so glad I got to spend time with her when I was in SF last fall. Photo on left is from 2014.

Latest comic: The dirty food dilemma

What can we do about a Supreme Court packed with corrupt extremists?

Latest cartoon: What did we learn from Covid?

Latest comic on oversized/super-loud EVS. I have no problem with fake engine sounds intended as a safety feature for people and animals. I'm talking about totally gratuitous, high-decibel roars!

Latest comic on America's ever-growing economic divide

A few shots from the recent National Press Foundation awards dinner, where I received the Berryman and did a cartoon reading for a big crowd. I also met Al Roker, who told me he used to be a published cartoonist. It was a terrific evening! Photo credit: Lisa Nipp for the National Press Foundation

Also, I got a kick out of these specialty drink signs at the bar using my artwork. I can confirm that the Newsgirl was STRONG.

In recent years, the First Amendment has been shoddily invoked to justify decisions that ultimately diminish its very raison d'être, quite possibly leading us to fascism.

Latest cartoon: Forced labor funnies

When a government attempts to discredit The Hague, it's a sign something has gone terribly wrong in that country.

The AI Journalism Awards

This week's comic on mainstream pundits still making excuses for Trump

New comic: Pundits pave the way to hell www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Latest comic on billionaires meddling on campus (and universities shamefully caving in to them)

I drew this strip a few years ago, but it feels even more relevant now.

Latest cartoon. There's this flawed idea that abortion is a "cultural" issue that is secondary to real, "material" concerns, like the economy, but it doesn't get much more real than your own body, or having to financially support a whole new human being.

Latest comic: Oil executives are very concerned about "polarization"