The Comedians Have Failed Us and We Are Adrift on a Moonless Sea
If we can’t get our news from Comedy Central, from whom can we get it?
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Overthinking Politics
Trump’s Speech at the Hall of Presidents
Make the Kingdom Magic Again!
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We’re Still Talking About That Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad
Now that all of the hot takes have cooled off, we take one more look at the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad, focusing on what it misses about how protests actually work.
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Pretty Much Everything You Think about That Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad Is Wrong
The Pepsi commercial starring Kendall Jenner may be bad… but was it bad at selling Pepsi?
It’s More Than “The Stroke Of A Pen”
Desperate times do NOT call for desperate metaphors.
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Donald Trump: The Human Laser Show
On President Trump, the Stone Mountain Lasershow Spectacular, and normalization of white supremacy.
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The “Look At This Asshole” Effect
When strawmen enter the echo chamber, nothing good can happen
Three Lessons from It’s a Wonderful Life for 2016
It’s a Wonderful life is 70 years old, and has a message for 2016: Sometimes the bad guy wins. Small victories matters. Fascists can be defeated.
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Pokemon Go Explains the 2016 Election
Who will take over the White House gym?
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Make Gossip Girl Great Again
The Upper East Side is a great place. I have a building there, so you know it’s pretty classy, okay. There are these great girls. Beautiful girls, like Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. I mean they are the … Continued
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