In 2006, the Onion began printing political cartoons by an artist known as Stan Kelly. The satirical weekly had long parodied the other staples of a traditional American newspaper—screaming ...

Chanting; red, white, and blue banners waving; crowds infuriated; a guillotine carried through ... a shared knowledge of a history of political violence; and a sense of epochal struggle, one ...

The ball actually a head first got rolling this week Aug. 21 in 1792 when Louis Collot d'Angremont, a secretary in the National Guard, became the first political victim of the guillotine in ...

Funny, provocative and always controversial, original political satirical cartoons date back to the 1700s. Now, the time-honored political tradition is making a comeback on Sunday mornings on CNN ...

(AP Photo/Politico, Matt Wuerker via Pulitzer Prize Board) Before TV shows like Colbert Report and the Daily Show, political cartoons were known for playing the role of satirists and providing ...