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“Hypocrisy, bombast, stupidity, and spite: those are the ingredients for a good day’s work by ace political cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, in a profile of the Pulitzer Prize-winner. The sharp edged political cartoon used to a staple of nearly every newspaper’s editorial page. In recent years, though, many of the U.S.’s remaining papers have abandoned the form.’s opinion section, for instance, has replaced its political cartoons with a rotation of nonpolitical ones.

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