Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
Immigration
Family of New Jersey Immigrant Who Died in Federal Custody Seeks Answers
Feb 9, 2026 Jean Wilson Brutus was detained by immigration officials and died less than 24 hours later in their custody at Delaney Hall in Newark.
TD Original
‘Unalived’ by a Thousand Cuts
Nov 14, 2024 The language is always evolving, but will mainstreaming evermore hypersensitive euphemisms for “death” really keep the Grim Reaper at bay?
Film
No Place for Sissies
Aug 30, 2024 An octogenarian filmmaker turns his camera down life’s homestretch.
TD Original
Preparing to Meet Your Maker, Plus Cake: The Life of a Death Cafe
Jan 25, 2024 Can the “death positive” movement help fix our dysfunctional relationship with the inevitability of human demise?2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: First Place, Visual Arts/Architecture/Literature Feature, Online & 2025 Southern California Journalism Award: Third Place, Lifestyle Feature
Belief & Religion
Inside the Growing Movement To Hold Space for Community Grief
Oct 18, 2023 Beginning as a response to environmental trauma, proponents of the trend seek to bring ritual back to a culture that has growingly become "grief-illiterate."
Race
Grave Dangers
Dec 19, 2022 Authorities helped erase a historic black cemetery in Virginia to clear way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center.
‘This Is Not a Drill’: WHO Urges the World to Fight Virus
Mar 5, 2020 With 17 times as many new infections outside China as in it, Italy and Iran close schools; travel and events are canceled; and markets yo-yo.
Chinese Doctor Who Sounded the Alarm About Virus Outbreak Dies
Feb 6, 2020 Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded by authorities in late December for "spreading rumors," succumbs to illness that has killed more than 560.
Kobe Bryant, His Daughter and 7 Others Die in Helicopter Crash
Jan 26, 2020 The sudden death at age 41 of the Lakers legend sets off an outpouring of grief; inquiry is underway at the scene near Calabasas, Calif.
Xi Calls Situation Grave as China Scrambles to Contain Virus
Jan 25, 2020 The president's remarks underline the urgent, expanding efforts to control the outbreak as Lunar New Year travelers hasten its spread.