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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."

John Oliver (Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle

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Donald Trump; Anthony Scaramucci; Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (AP/Evan Vucci/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Twentieth Century Fox)

Greed is not good: Will the Trump team disasters finally put an end to the businessman myth?

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Is dead Donald Trump funny? Understanding gallows humor in the Trump era

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Activist Alexis Templeton in "Whose Streets?" (Photo Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

“This is what democracy looks like”: Why Black Lives Matter is a struggle to save our democracy

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Donna Brazile (AP/Paul Sancya)

Why is Donna Brazile still emailing me? The tone-deaf DNC has no credibility

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Forget fake news — alt-right memes could do more damage to democracy

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City of Ghosts (Amazon Studios)

Trump’s Muslim travel ban is a win for ISIS: This must-see film about Syrian journalists shows why

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The right wing war on facts: The new partisan divide that’s destroying our nation

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Stephen Colbert; Alex Jones (Salon/Flora Thevoux)

Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed

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Crater created by massive explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

We mourn Manchester, but not Kabul: How biased coverage of terrorist attacks drives us apart

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Trump is a drug — and the media is addicted

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Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University (AP/John Raoux)

Booing Betsy DeVos isn’t enough: Face it, we have all failed our universities

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Bernie Sanders (AP/Jae C. Hong)

The DNC’s elephant in the room: Dems have a problem — it’s not Donald Trump

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Aziz Ansari; Hasan Minhaj (NBC/Will Heath/AP/Cliff Owen)

Trump can’t ban Muslim comics: Hasan Minhaj understands the 1st Amendment better than Trump

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Sean Spicer (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

100 days of Sean Spicer: The White House’s press strategy is more sinister than you think

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Bill O’Reilly ruined the news: 10 ways he and Fox News harassed us all

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Trump’s millennial problem: The snowflakes are becoming a blizzard

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Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again

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“Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans

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People in the crowd respond to a woman supporting President Donald Trump during a town hall meeting with Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) (Getty/Sean Rayford)

“We are relearning democracy”: 5 Ways the anti-Trump movement “Indivisible” is redefining political action

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Bassem Youssef (Getty/Khaled Desouki)

Lessons from “the Egyptian Jon Stewart”: “The satirist’s role ends at the screen”

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Richard Nixon; Donald Trump; Walter Cronkite (AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump has given the mainstream news a gift — and they’re blowing it

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The resistance is all in your head: 6 ways to fight Trump brain rot

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Beware the Trump brain rot: The cognitive effects of this administration’s actions could be disastrous

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