There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works ...

how satire is perceived as news, and cartooning during times of war. Political cartoonists discussed the 2024 election and global affairs at an event hosted by the Syracuse University Institute ...

I can’t really claim I had a well-developed political understanding at the age of six years ... Amongst the foremost of them ...

But among members of the creative class — filmmakers, authors, painters, poets — a sense of purpose was percolating beneath ...

Given that, what better way to distract yourself from the doomscrolling than by binge-watching a political TV show, offering a dive into a fictional universe. From the romanticism of Aaron Sorkin ...

In terms of SNL's political sketches and who it targets, former writer James Downey shared that the show hitting Republicans harder than the Democrats isn't anything new – and not something ...

The depiction of Donald Trump’s early years as a real estate developer in The Apprentice has long been generating headlines, and legal threats. With Sebastian Stan taking on the lead role, Ali ...

Her job as a writer at El Chigüire Bipolar, a wildly popular website for political satire, required her to churn out jokes on a daily basis. But she was dodging tear gas on the way to the office.

But their greatest hits came in the form of political satire musicals. There’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning “Of Thee I Sing,” about a president vowing to marry a beauty pageant winner. “Let ’Em Eat Cake ...

Neither of the two big political parties in Washington gives a hoot about it except as a tool to virtue-signal—usually right before an election. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s reference to Puerto ...

I think it’s one thing when you have a political satire show that makes fun of a candidate or makes fun of an issue; that’s what those shows are designed to do when they’re on the air and ...

Perhaps you’ve heard there’s a presidential election coming up? One that may, in fact, be the single most important referendum on our way of government in our lifetime? It is a reality that ...