March 20, 2013
By Tony Auth @bytonyauth
Will the Republican Party try to broaden its appeal in an attempt to attract the non-rich, non-white and not old? Or will ideologically pure Tea Party extremists prevail? This will be fun to watch.
After 40 years as editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he garnered more than his share of both awards and hate mail, Tony Auth decided that the time had come to broaden the range of his commentary. There is, after all, so much more to life than politics.
What he needed was a new venue. What he found was WHYY, and NewsWorks, where he is now its first Digital Artist in Residence.
Stay tuned.
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