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Cartoons of the Week
May 5–11, 2012
President Obama throws a shotgun wedding, plus other editorial cartoons from the week. -
Historic TIME Letters
TV
Pop culture consumers may be devoted, but all that adulation can turn to outrage with the slightest of provocations
It’s great that diversity is extending to the neurological, but there’s a danger in portraying those on the spectrum as inherently miraculous
The new show Fat Chef is remarkably truthful about how we cook and eat in America, but it’s also a spectacle of shame
It’s a finely milled bar of English lavender no one has to feel guilty about, but a soap nonetheless
The 10-year-old show is playing up its history, but what young person wants to watch “an institution”?
Now that Paula Deen has become a pseudo-spokesperson for Type 2 diabetes, she’ll continue to enrage health nuts all the way to the bank
While the Supreme Court debates nudity on old episodes of NYPD Blue, research shows we have a much bigger problem with kids and TV
How can viewers aspire to a lifestyle that seems absurd in this economy?
People have more time to veg out in front of the tube and give a new show a try — if only there were some to check out
Why are there so many holiday movies and so little holiday TV?
Sometimes even a hit series needs to pull the plug
Digital gross-outs come to network TV, leaving little to the imagination
A wealth of wisdom from annual Turkey Day episodes
The founder of Baby Einstein says the recommendation against TV for kids under 2 is partially based on flawed data
Don’t look to this season’s spate of man shows to help you broaden the definitions of manhood
