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What Romney's career shows, after all, is that once you're at the top, you can keep being called C.E.O. even if you're not even working at the company. You can get paid a hundred grand a year... while doing, by your own account, nothing at all for the company. You can build up an I.R.A. worth tens of millions of dollars when the maximum annual contribution is four thousand dollars... and pay a much lower tax rate on your income than the vast majority of Americans... None of these things is illegal, but none of them are things that ordinary Americans can benefit from, and that’s the real scandal of Romney's career at Bain. →

Usually, New Yorker cartoonists know what editor Robert Mankoff wants to see. Sometimes they don’t. Check out our slideshow of a new collection of twisted, offensive, and/or hilarious rejects from Mankoff’s wastebasket.

The New Yorker’s new Osama bin Laden cover: “Erasing Osama,” by Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu.

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This chain of command chart of the Bush2 White House was originally drawn during the bizarre run-up and confused aftermath to the Iraq War, when the news was full of shadowy characters and sinister warnings leading to stupid decisions and fuckups and a surge in the re-use of the word Quagmire. Quagmires are often the result of Neat Ideas and departments that produce them. I drew the original black and white diagram for the New Yorker in 2003. They didn’t use it, but asked me to paint it into a cover at the time Scooter Libby was about to be pardoned. They didn’t use the cover either, but a few people were highly amused by it. I posted it to my blog when Bush2 was swanking around with his memoir.

-Eric Hanson 

And now it appears here! Jealous, New Yorker?

Animation of Wave Propagation from the Japan Earthquake

Via NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research