The White House social media accounts have departed from posting traditional, highly edited photos of Rose Garden ceremonies ...

Satire occupies a paradoxical niche in geopolitics. It wields no armies, drafts no treaties, and commands no resources, yet it influences the legitimacy of those who do. A single sketch or cartoon can ...

Snopes, one of the nation’s leading fact-checking outfits, has quietly introduced a new category for rating claims: “Labeled Satire.” While a request for comment from Snopes was not returned, the ...

Here’s a faux headline you won’t see on any late-night comedy show: “Ocasio-Cortez Still Brainstorming Ways to Keep Detained Children From Getting Beds, Food.” And “Hillary Proposes Reparations to ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, as well as if it isn’t, in a new initiative. When a satirical page uses the name of a politician, for example, it will be labeled “Satire Page” to ensure ...

Almost two decades in development, “White Noise,” a film adaptation on the acclaimed 1985 novel by American author Don DeLillo (“Libra”) arrives, and it is probably doomed at the box-office, in spite ...

The 38-year-old filmmaker discusses his socially charged comedy, inspired by a real-life student revolt over Japan's outdated ...