In today’s Daily Comment, Jane Mayer writes about Senator Ted Cruz and Communism. Mayer reports on a speech Cruz gave at Harvard Law School, during which he accused the school of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there, “who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government”: http://nyr.kr/12WUgKO

Photograph by Lauren Lancaster.

Read Ryan Lizza on Ted Cruz and the future of Texas politics.

Click-through to read Steve O’Donnell’s remembrance of his brother, the playwright and author Mark O’Donnell, who passed away Monday, and for a few of Mark’s humor pieces for the magazine: http://nyr.kr/Nz50T1 

An Edward Koren cartoon from 2002. For both of these competitions, we’re going with the team that has Jeremy Lin.