I depend on laughter for a catharsis that allows me to break through the daily dose of fear, dread and shame, that accompanies every day Donald Trump inhabits the White House, writes Anita Diamant.

Self-confident presidents have used humor to blunt political attacks. President Ronald Reagan, facing criticism that his tax ...

A glance at the December/January issue of Policy Review: A comparative look at political humorAlexander Rose, a senior correspondent for Canada’s National Post, takes a scholarly look at ...

Ford's Theatre hosted political satirist Mark Russell and former Representative Joe Crowley to discuss the role humor plays in politics, particularly during contentious times. They were joined by ...

During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump told reporters that how he would describe one of his secretaries ...

Las Vegas does host name comedians — Bill Maher and Dennis Miller among them — whose humor is aggressively political and heavily partisan. But audiences of such performers know, expect, and ...

Modern political humor is a rich and important field, one that provides some of the most forceful and incisive commentary around today.

"Political humor was kind of a benign art form at that time, perhaps because Buchwald knew he would lose newspapers, and Carson knew he would lose affiliates." ...

And so this book examines the politics of political humor so that we may better understand the role and consequence of modern political comedy and satire in America today.

Modern political humor is a rich and important field, one that provides some of the most forceful and incisive commentary around today.