It is extremely hard to watch the nation convulse over gun control. Those of us concerned with the state of our democracy and with the increasing acceptance of violence as an everyday part of life cringe as we hear the pro-gun rhetoric. We hear that any effort to control guns...

Last week billionaire and notorious "birther" Donald Trump claimed that he had a "bombshell" that would change the election: he announced that if President Obama would provide him with copies of his college and passport records that he would write a check for $5 million to...

By now you have probably seen the video where President Obama refers to Romney's complete forgetting of his previous political stances as "Romnesia." Obama supporters are finding this wordplay a breath of fresh air in an election that has seemed to stumble, most notoriously with the first round of Presidential...

On Saturday satire goes toe to toe with punditry when multiple Emmy winner and political comedy guru, Jon Stewart, goes up against Fox's noble newsman, Bill O'Reilly, in a 90 minute debate. The Rumble in the Air-conditioned Auditorium will live stream for $4.95 on Saturday at 8:00 p.m....

The big news out of the Republican National Convention was the lying. Paul Ryan went down in convention history as delivering one of the most lie-filled speeches ever. Even Sally Kohn of Fox News wrote that "to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts,...

When comedian Stephen Colbert launched his show, The Colbert Report (2005), he introduced the word "truthiness" to the U.S. public. Speaking in character as a bloviating right-wing pundit, Colbert explained that truthiness was thinking from the gut, ignoring facts, and holding beliefs with no basis in reality.

At...

Stephen Colbert just can't seem to stop causing trouble. First, he stood not 20 feet from President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner and tore down the unpopular president with a mock-laudatory speech that went viral overnight. Then, he ceased merely reporting on the ripples in the pond...

Stephen Colbert has called us losers. He got us (and 999 other fan groups based at universities) to buy his Super Fun Pack, filled it with what seemed like a series of gag items, and then asked us all to solve an extremely complex treasure hunt. If we solved it,...

After stating that she would never, ever go on The Colbert Report, after cautioning Democratic Representatives to avoid talking to Colbert, Nancy Pelosi finally came around. She appeared on The Colbert Report on February 22 saying that her decision was "part of my Lent resolution...

It's this simple. Newt Gingrich has not upheld family values by any reasonable definition of the term. This fact may not have been much of an issue except that Gingrich has tried to advance his career by questioning the values of others -- most notably those of Bill Clinton.

On January 20, 2012 Stephen Colbert announced on The Colbert Report that he intended to explore the possibility of running for President of South Carolina. After transferring control of his Super PAC to Jon Stewart he was free to become a candidate.

But there was...

Last Thursday, January 12 offered the latest twist on comedian Stephen Colbert's involvement in the 2012 presidential campaign. That night he learned from Trevor Potter, former FEC commissioner and general counsel to the McCain campaign, that he could not keep his Super PAC and also explore a presidential campaign at...

As Stephen Colbert signed off for the holiday season on December 15 his fans, no doubt, felt the let-down of upcoming reruns. With the Republican primary in full swing, The Colbert Report has been one of the premier sources of insight into the primary race and Colbert's spin...

Across the globe and from U.S. city to U.S. city, we watch daily as waves of protesters, many of them young, take to the streets. Such images seemed impossible five years ago. Back then the mainstream buzz was that the youth were "stoned slackers" -- too narcissistic and tech...