Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury

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Jul 2, 202128:16News & Politics

For five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doonesbury . He started the strip in October, 1970 as a student at Yale. With its shar...

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