Bonus Cartoons!

From Trump at the UN to his latest medical advice (plus a little "South Park").

Greg Mitchell has authored 14 books and directed four PBS films since 2022. His latest, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has been airing over PBS stations and now streaming for free (key links to watch now and more here). A companion book is available, and you can read more or order here. The New Yorker magazine this week has a piece about the PBS film, which you can read here. And subscribing to this newsletter is still somehow FREE.

Some days there so many good political cartoons out there I have to offer you an evening bonus so you don’t have to wait until tomorrow. First, a couple of minutes from this week’s “South Park,” which goes after the FCC chair and J.D. Vance.

Via The New Yorker:

Barry Blitt:

Books by Greg Mitchell include: Best-seller “The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Film JFK Tried to Kill.” Award-winners “The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics” and “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” A New York Times Notable Book, “Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas.”

Companion books to his recent PBS films: Memorial Day Massacre, Atomic Cover-up, The Atomic Bowl.

Also, two acclaimed books with the late Robert Jay Lifton, “Hiroshima in America” and “Who Owns Death? Against Capital Punishment.” On the media and Iraq, “So Wrong for So Long,” with a preface by Bruce Springsteen. And in a different vein, “Vonnegut and Me,” “Journeys With Beethoven” and “Joy in Mudville: A Little League Memoir.”