Cartoons from the December 1, 2014 Issue

How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.

Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional uncertainty. What better time to try standup comedy?

My month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.

At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.