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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/2ba18200-860d-4661-888b-9210372e9bea_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Political Cartoons: Exploring Serious Subjects in Fun Way' data-article-id='3574'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7333'>Political cartoons date back to before the creation of the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='7333' data-end-time='13958'>Today, they remain an important part of American culture.</span> <span data-start-time='13958' data-end-time='25688'>They are protected as free speech, as part of a free press, under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.</span> <span data-start-time='25688' data-end-time='38042'>Matt Wuerker is a long-time political cartoonist, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 2012.</span> <span data-start-time='38042' data-end-time='47958'>His cartoons appear in Politico, a media company that reports on U.S. politics.</span> <span data-start-time='47958' data-end-time='59667'>He told VOA at his office, outside Washington, D.C., that he sees his job as quite unusual.</span> <span data-start-time='59667' data-end-time='68854'>“We’re a strange mix of things in that we are making serious commentary on serious topics, but we're doing it not so seriously.”</span> <span data-start-time='68854' data-end-time='82479'>Wuerker likes the fact that he can express opinions in the same way as television commentators and those who write opinion pieces for newspapers.</span> <span data-start-time='82479' data-end-time='94208'>The difference, he says, is that, 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/what_is_a_cartoon.wav'>What is a cartoon?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='picture that looks at people or objects in a funny way'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/laws_and_regulations.wav'><span>laws and regulations</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/picture_that_looks_at_people_or_objects_in_a_funny_way.wav'><span>picture that looks at people or objects in a funny way</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/primary_elections_at_the_state_level.wav'><span>primary elections at the state level</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/a_long_typed_document.wav'><span>a long typed document</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=12134 data-hint-location='7333' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/today_they_remain_an_important_part_of_american_what.wav'>Today, they remain an important part of American what?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='culture'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/cars.wav'><span>cars</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/culture.wav'><span>culture</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/meals.wav'><span>meals</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3029/households.wav'><span>households</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' 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