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 ...

From Voltaire to Joseph Heller, writers have used satire to skewer institutions and individuals. Historian Barbara Tuchman observed that “Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

“Satire in America is…at best a fragile plant, and never more so than now…Yet, when it works, satire is in the first instance a source of permanent pleasure, and offers the long echo of laughter, as ...

Jessica is a young writer from Brisbane, Australia. An avid consumer and lover of all things Film and TV, you will never tear her away from a screen. A tendency rooted from childhood, she once had ...

Satire used to come in all flavors — silly, savage, and everything in between. I used to love it in all those forms. But lately, it’s gotten stuck in one lane: rich people behaving badly. From The ...