Political cartoons for October 27

Monday's political cartoons include improving national monuments, the NBA gambling scandal, and the AI energy vampire

This political cartoon depicts the the Statue of Liberty as a giant golden woman with comically oversized, rounded breasts. A woman turns to a man looking at the statue and says, “I hope he’s done ‘improving’ our national monuments.”

(Image credit: Ed Wexler / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon is titled “Full-Court Press” and depicts a giant gavel labeled “Gambling Scandal” coming down hard on a basketball court and an NBA player, who then drops the basketball.

(Image credit: Walt Handelsman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

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