The week gets off to a sad start with news that Tony Auth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Inquirer editorial cartoonist who more recently worked at WHYY’s Newsworks, has died of cancer at age 72. If ever there was a journalist who fought for truth, justice and the American way, it was Tony. But what really made him an inspiration to me and to so many others was that he consistently expressed what he thought was right – not the viewpoint that would be the easiest or the most popular, and he spoke uncomfortable truths to people in power. His passing would have been a huge loss at any time…but the American conversation really could have used his wisdom in these muddled times. Rest in peace.

A Tony Auth retrospective

RIP, TONY AUTH: Colleagues salute Pulitzer-winning Philadelphia journalist as a singular, big-hearted artist