Beyond a Joke: Is Political Satire Dead? Or Have We Found a Pulse?
When the truth is already a joke, what’s left to joke about? Rolling Stone's James Shackell dives into the rise and rise of political satire.
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Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era
A new interview with Axios exposes the president’s cluelessness about the pandemic that has killed over 150,000 Americans
As White House staff are defending the president by saying he was “joking,” Trump seems content on leaving the waters muddied while more Americans die
Oddly, the loudest cheers of the night came when Trump proved he could drink water from a glass
“If he is re-elected, the country will flip upside down,” says one protester. “It’s going to be this, times 10”
King was spouting the president’s brand of politics for years before Trump started his run. Can he keep it going after?
And with the Insurrection Act, he has the statutory authority to do so
“We so dissociate ourselves from the messages of this president,” Mariann Budde told the Washington Post
In our latest quarantine episode of Rolling Stone‘s Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by leading virologist Dr. Christian Bréchot. They discuss the origins of COVID-19, how the virology and wider scientific communities are working together for solutions, how a vaccine may get developed and why he doesn’t expect one any time […]