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Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her latest book is "Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn't."

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Can Democrats win in 2020 by attacking Trump? A new study says no

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A Donald Trump supporter holds up an anti-Muslim poster as he awaits anti-Donald Trump protesters marching through the streets in Cleveland, Ohio, near the Quicken Loans Arena site of the Republican National Convention July 18, 2016. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Islamophobia is about politics, not faith: New study explores impact on 2020 elections

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Samantha Bee (AP/Evan Agostini)

Samantha Bee’s brutal Trump taunts: Why her Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is necessary

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William Barr; Robert Mueller; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

The Mueller Report has become the left’s Benghazi

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Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter?

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Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC/AP/Illustration by Salon)

Trump vs. “SNL”: A political comedy Americans are actually watching

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The one thing that should really worry you about the 2020 election

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"Full Frontal With Samantha Bee;"Saturday Night Live;" "The Daily Show" (Michele K. Short/Will Heath/NBC/Brad Barket)

5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy

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Michael Moore (Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)

Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9”: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters

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Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 11/9" (Toronto International Film Festival)

Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9”: Trump is the symptom, not the disease

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We don’t need to “rethink college” — we need to rethink the arguments against it

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Trump’s war on words and the failures of a “weaponized” defense

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Donald Trump; Hassan Rouhani (Getty/Saul Loeb/Michael Gruber)

How we talk about Iran matters — and not just Trump’s “BE CAUTIOUS!” tweets

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Sacha Baron Cohen interviews Philip Van Cleave on "Who Is America?" (Showtime)

The genius of Sacha Baron Cohen: 5 comedy strategies that make his insane interviews work

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Nothing Donald Trump did in Helsinki was a surprise: Can we dial back the outrage and get to work?

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A protester outside the Islamic Community Center on May 29, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Getty/Christian Petersen)

America’s real Muslim problem is Islamophobia

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Donald Trump; Michelle Wolf (Getty/AP/Salon)

Donald Trump and the media: The problem isn’t too much coverage — it’s how this president is covered

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Don’t worry, be cynical: Why the fear of a nation of critical skeptics is overblown

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Abraham Lincoln; Dinesh D'Souza; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Dinesh D’Souza’s insane Trump-Lincoln movie: A new low for right-wing dementia in America?

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Jon Stewart (AP/Jason DeCrow)

Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off

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Bill Clinton; Monica Lewinsky (AP/Patrick Semansky/Lionel Cironneau/Salon)

Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky fail is a symptom of something bigger: Democrats’ lack of integrity

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Ivan Castaneda, a former Mexican soldier deported from the United States, embraces his children at the bank of the Rio Grande during the event called "Abrazos No Muros" (Hugs, not walls). (Getty/Herika Martinez)

Do liberals really care about immigrant kids?

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Don’t call them “free-range” kids: Neoliberal language undermines this positive movement

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Jerry Falwell (AP/NBC/Getty/Salon)

The gift Jerry Falwell gave us: The right to make fun of Donald Trump

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