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Topic: Satire

President Donald Trump at the White House (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump shares "Obamacare royalties" claim

Alex Galbraith
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 21, 2025. (John McDonnell/Getty Images))

Brendan Carr betrays free speech

Austin Sarat
A copy of "The Onion," a satirical newspaper, is seen on a lamppost in downtown Washington, DC on November 14, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

When fake news is dead serious

Andi Zeisler
(L-R) Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in "Death of a Unicorn" (Balazs Goldi)

Eat the rich films have run their course

Coleman Spilde
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US singer Katy Perry performs on stage at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center grand opening ceremony in New York on June 28, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Katy Perry says panned song is "satire"

Nardos Haile
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters and staff on his airplane, known as Trump Force One, as he is flown to Iowa on Monday, March 13, 2023, in West Palm Beach, FL. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Turning the Trump joke back on us

Chauncey DeVega
Elijah (R.J. Cyler) and Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) in "The Book of Clarence" (Legendary Pictures)

"Book of Clarence" & losing our religion

D. Watkins
A copy of the Onion is seen in a news rack May 5, 2009 in San Francisco, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

The Onion and the defense of satire

Stephen Skalicky - The Conversation
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Randy Rainbow (Dirty Sugar Photography)

Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
Janice Dean, Lawrence B. Jones, Abby Hornacek at the new All-American Christmas Tree lighting outside News Corporation at Fox Square on December 9, 2021 in New York City. The original 50-foot tree displayed on FOX Square in Midtown Manhattan was allegedly set on fire by a man during the early morning hours of December 8, 2021. He was later arrested. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Daily Show pokes fun at Fox tree debacle

Rocio Fabbro
President Barack Obama and Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" October 18, 2012 (Brad Barket for PictureGroup)

How "The Daily Show" changed U.S. satire

Sophia A. McClennen
Cecily Strong as a lawyer and Alec Baldwin as President Elect Donald J. Trump during the Trump Press Conference Cold Open on January 14th, 2017. (Will Heath/NBC)

Who can take a joke? Not conservatives

Sophia A. McClennen
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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Will Heath/NBC)

Trump reportedly tried to sic DOJ on SNL

Jon Skolnik
Mel Brooks in History of the World: Part I (1981) (20th Century Fox)

Mel Brooks' "History of the World" at 40

Matthew Rozsa
Pete Buttigieg (Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images)

From the desk of Pete Buttigieg, sort of

Norman Solomon
Weird Al Yankovic music video "We're All Doomed" (Weird Al/Schmoyoho/YouTube)

Weird Al as "Doomed" debate moderator

Althea Legaspi - Rolling Stone
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Michael Moore in "Bowling For Columbine" (Metro Goldwyn Meyer)

"Bowling for Columbine": Lessons for now

Sophia A. McClennen

Too many think satirical news is is real

R. Kelly Garrett, Robert Bond, Shannon Poulsen - The Conversation
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

A modest proposal for the President

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump's totally real 2018 Christmas list

D. Watkins
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Maria Butina; Stormy Daniels (AP/Getty/Ralf Hirschberger)

Are men too easily flattered?

Amanda Marcotte
Piers Morgan (Getty/Jeff Spicer)

Piers Morgan wants to be Trump's Chief

Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Oliver (HBO)

When did news become satirical?

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP/Win McNamee)

I too am savagely impartial. Confirm me!

Dan Canon
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