With the stock market spiraling and fears of a recession growing, there was almost no question about where "Saturday Night Live" would focus its cold open. The typical slot for the sketch show's ...

The 1930s are remembered as one of the toughest eras in American History. The nation was in disarray, banks were shuttered, unemployment had skyrocketed, and food was scarce. We call it the Great ...

A "soup kitchen" in Chicago, opened for the hungry and homeless by gangster Al Capone during the Depression in 1930.Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images The Great Depression was the worst economic ...

Saturday Night Live recently explored, much like some economists, the possibility that President Donald Trump‘s groundbreaking global tariffs could lead the nation into economic turmoil. The show’s ...

Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson took to the stage as President Donald Trump, promising to “Make America Great Depression Again” in a spoof of the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement ...