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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."

Sarah Palin, Tina Fey (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/NBC)

Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us

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(AP/Evan Agostini/Greg Allen)

Michael Moore might save Flint: Moore, Jon Stewart, John Oliver keep proving satirists get more done than politicians

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Bill Maher (HBO)

What the media can learn from Bill Maher: 1 year after Charlie Hebdo attack, satirists still taking risks news outlets won’t

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(AP/Rick Bowmer/AP/Richard Shiro/Photo montage by Salon)

They created our Bundy/Trump hellscape: Fox News’ angry white audience will destroy us yet

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(Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Donald Trump has made us all a**holes: How 2016 has coarsened us all into Fox News jerks

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Michael Moore just exploded the right’s biggest lie

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(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Steve Marcus)

Fox News’ new war on truth: This is why Donald Trump and GOP field get away with lies

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Republicans just don’t get Stephen Colbert: Why the Fox News-watching, climate-change denying crowd can’t understand complex satire

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(HBO/Janet Van Ham)

Let’s listen to Bill Maher: On Paris, religion and race, Maher walks a fascinating and tricky line

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Trevor Noah has cratered “The Daily Show”: He has no bite, no message — and has let Fox News off the hook

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(Evan Agostini)

Michael Moore’s gutsy new film: Our military has not won a war since World War II

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Stephen Colbert (CBS)

We faked orgasms for Stephen Colbert: No, really! He asked us to!

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Jay Leno, David Letterman (AP/Kevork Djansezian/Bebeto Matthews)

Bring back the Jay Leno and David Letterman feuds: What’s lost in the nice, new late-night of Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel

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Larry David saved Bernie Sanders: “SNL” impression made him human, likable — after a rough debate with Hillary Clinton

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(Comedy Central)

Trevor Noah’s master class: It’s not just Fox News — this is the topic that needs Noah, Oliver, Stewart

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-611893p1.html'>f11photo</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-345760p1.html'>Krivosheev Vitaly</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

America wants you to suffer: The staggering ways we punish our college graduates

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(Comedy Central)

This is Larry Wilmore’s brilliant moment: It’s not all about Trevor Noah on Comedy Central

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(Comedy Central)

Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America

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(CBS)

So much for Stephen Colbert dipping his balls in Donald Trump’s mouth

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Jon Stewart, come back, we need you: GOP debate bulls**t really does need eviscerating

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-578401p1.html'>Sean Pavone</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-345760p1.html'>Krivosheev Vitaly</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Screw U: Inside the GOP’s war on college students

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(Reuters/Lucas Jackson/AP/Richard Shotwell)

Stephen Colbert can save us from Trump — but we all must mock this bozo

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(Comedy Central)

Twitter won the GOP debate: A fitting tribute to Jon Stewart, who made citizen-satirists of us all

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Jon Stewart surrounded by, clockwise from top left: Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson (Comedy Central/Fox News/Reuters/Brendan McDermid/AP/Mark J. Terrill/Salon)

Jon Stewart’s real threat to Fox News: You don’t get to define patriotism!

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