It’s no secret that America is more divided than ever. While peaceful Thanksgiving dinners were the first to fall, satire is the latest victim of polarization. On the other hand, there has never been ...

The deadly attack at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was a sobering reminder that to some religious extremists -- the same ones often lambasted on the covers of satirical magazines -- ...

More than a million people — including a camera-friendly rack of world leaders — took to the streets of Paris last weekend to march in support of free expression in the wake of the killing of ...

TikTok doesn't know what "satire" means, but the hashtag will lead you to a few funny videos . While satire usually refers to a comedic form of social commentary, on TikTok, it's more like a video ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Kay McSpadden Special to the Observer A bust of Don Quixote sits in one corner of my ...

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own," said Jonathan Swift, the gifted 18th-century lasher of human hypocrisy. "Which is the chief reason ...

We found that labeling an article as “satire” was uniquely effective. Users were less likely to believe stories labeled as satire, were less likely to share them and saw the source as less credible.

New Delhi, Social media platform X on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that any content in the realm of satire, fair comment ...

If you believe that satire in film is about cracking jokes, think again. Satire is about using humor to deliver sharp social commentary. It combines social criticism with pointed humor, then hands it ...

The playwright George S. Kaufman famously said, “Satire is what closes on Saturday night.” Funny, but also not literally true, at least for Kaufman, a well-known satirist who co-wrote the ...