Overland Park, Kansas, may seem like an unlikely setting for using the "New Yorker." While it is not the "Wizard of Oz" Kansas -- more suburban sprawl than expansive wheat fields -- the ethos is far from the cosmopolitan aesthetic of New York City. The "New Yorker" covers can raise questions that may lead to relevant argumentative writing. Print magazines and cartoon illustrations do not sound like 21st-century tools; certainly, the world has changed dramatically in the 90 years since the first cover of the "New Yorker." What remains -- and what can be accessed using these covers -- is the need to stimulate student awareness, curiosity, and imagination.