German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...
When people ask what the resistance to Trump will look like this time, I hope a salient feature will be individual refusals ...
The elephant became linked to the Republican Party largely due to the work of political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who is often credited with popularizing both symbols. In an 1874 cartoon published ...
THOMAS NAST, a German-born caricaturist, has been hailed as the “father of the American cartoon” by critics ... (Incivility and name-calling in the political sphere are hardly modern innovations.) ...