The other day, Larry Bartels posted a Monkey Cage article entitled “Here’s how a cartoon smiley face punched a big hole in democratic theory,” with the subtitle, “Fleeting exposure to ‘irrelevant ...

Democracy, Mencken says here every day, is “the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.” But that’s not the way most political scientists see it. The leading theoretical paradigm in the field ...

SUNRISE, Fla., April 5 (UPI) -- A Florida elementary school principal was outraged to see a student who was not supposed to be in a photo was replaced with a smiley face, officials said. Sunrise ...

Popular YouTuber Dream has for years been known to his fans only as a cartoon smiley face. The Minecraft gamer, with 30 million subscribers online, only ever uses his voice in streams - albeit ...

Vladimir Putin drew a cartoon smiley face with big ears for the cameras in his first public outing since the aborted Wagner coup. The odd moment came after a rare meet-and-greet with Russians in an ...

A painted gunman with a smiley face is on the house of the suspected Highland Park shooter's mom. The New York Post reported that the suspected gunman painted it, though it's unclear when. The gunman ...

The principal of Sawgrass Elementary School was not smiling when she saw what a photography studio did to obscure the face of a child who wasn't supposed to participate in picture day with the rest of ...