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Alexander Rose, a senior correspondent for Canada’s National Post, takes a scholarly look at political humor over the ages. From rural Chinese peasants lampooning village leaders to scatological ...

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Mad magazine has its own exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum featuring original art from “The Usual Gang of Idiots.” ...

New York City’s next mayor showed during the campaign that he has a sharp sense of humor. Keeping things light at City Hall ...

It’s always tough getting people interested in party politics in Brazil, a nation where ideology is non-existent, political parties stand for little more than organized power grabs, and where, ...

This post is written by Apoorva Thakur, junior research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. Humor, specifically political humor, serves a purpose. It can be a ...