Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on two recent satires that were mistaken for real news-last week's Paul Ryan one on Politico and this week's Onion story on Ahmadinejad. Photo: Getty Imag ...

From hilarious headlines to pretend pundits, satire is a huge force in both news and entertainment. Sometimes, it's way too easy to mistake satire for fake news, which can leave kids (and parents) ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Human Rights Watch Central Asia Researcher Mihra Rittmann wrote a dispatch concluding, “The authorities may be trying to send the message that satire has no place in Kazakhstan, but all they ...

“Things fall apart,” the Irish poet WB Yeats wrote in his 1919 poem “The Second Coming”. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” All epochs move, inexorably, towards decline, and so too, apparently, ...

Other than hate-spewing politicians, vandals are the only professionals who get mandatory police protection. The author of this satire is Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu.

Chancellor Lee Roberts included me in a group chat about his upcoming haircut and styling plans. I didn't think it could be real. Then he walked out on campus today with a buzz cut, his glistening ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Perhaps conceding that he can no longer stay ahead of the curve in our stranger-than-fiction times, Charlie ...

Fey saw in it the seeds of satire, so she wrote a screenplay that became “Mean Girls,” a big hit when it came out in 2004. Late last decade, Fey and her composer husband, Jeff Richmond ...

For example, on April 6 ... as "a subsidiary of the 'America's Last Line of Defense' network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery." The page also makes a humorous mention of Snopes.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The 2010s was a period marked by our collective fascination with scammers. Several cases of high-profile abuses of trust seemed to ...

Some of the best satire this season is around the creative process involved in making live TV – or profitable live TV. Co-creator and co-showrunner Paul W. Downs again stars as Jimmy ...