The former 'Tonight Show' host said he doesn't want to alienate his audience Gary Miller/Getty Jay Leno avoids politics in his standup, saying it helps boost ticket sales by 20-30% He believes comedy ...

He believes comedy should unite audiences and avoid alienating people with differing political views Leno remains optimistic about societal change, comparing it to gradually getting a donkey’s ...

Americans love a great satirist: Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, and more recently the likes of Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Andy Borowitz. But no one has done it more caustically, more ...

Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by ...

More than 140 University of Michigan students and Ann Arbor community members gathered at the Michigan Theater Sunday afternoon for the viewing of “A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant,” ...

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Last month Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., opened an art exhibit titled “Hold My Hand In Yours,” which was scheduled to run for six months in the on-campus Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

The forces of political reaction continue their efforts, in countless forms, to stamp out opposition. A ruling elite, along with leading institutions, that has lost its head, feels besieged and sees ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Krasznahorkai was born in Hungary in 1954, two years before the Soviets viciously crushed an uprising in Budapest, and his ...

Why are Democrats linked with a donkey and Republicans with an elephant? The answer goes back to 19th-century political cartoons by artist Thomas Nast. This video explores how satire turned two ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is federally funded and has ceased operations and canceled all programs until the shutdown is resolved. Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via ...