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How MAGA Humor Took Over American Comedy

Iain Ellis / 16 February 2026

In the minds of MAGA humorists, they, not their risk-averse and PC-hobbled liberal counterparts, are continuing the tradition of bold, truth-telling comedy.

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Can “No Kings” Protest Humor Shrivel Away Authoritarianism?

Iain Ellis / 3 November 2025

Besides billionaires—and without needing to beg or bribe—comedians and No Kings jesters may be the next highest demographic that is thriving during these Trump-led authoritarian times.

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Trump Country Music’s Dance of the Cowboy Boots

Iain Ellis / 20 October 2025

Trump country music has right-wing country stars and fans dancing to the beat of the authoritarian in their hard-heeled country boots… for now.

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Trumpism and Contemporary Christian Music’s Civil War

Iain Ellis / 14 January 2025

With the invasion of TWP, or Trump Worship Music, Trumpism is generating a civil war amongst Contemporary Christian Music fans and artists.

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What If Donald Trump’s Cabinet Picks Really Were Looney Tunes?

Sal Cataldi / 9 January 2025

Many of Donald Trump’s 2025 cabinet picks came from Fox News. Would the nation be better served if he binged Looney Tunes instead?

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The Kids Are Alt-Right: How Punk Got Co-opted by Fascism

Iain Ellis / 17 April 2023

Like political populism, punk’s traits and tenets are sufficiently vague, contradictory, and unmoored to be vulnerable to co-option by all political opportunists—including the fascist alt-right.

Film/Reviews/Television

‘The Edge of Democracy’ and Parallels of Political Crises

Derick Gomez / 27 October 2020

Academy Award-nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy, now streaming on Netflix, lays bare the political parallels of the rise of Bolsonaro's Brazil with Trump's America.

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Kamala Harris’ 2020 VP Run Evokes Rod Lurie’s 2000 ‘The Contender’

Cheryl Graham / 6 October 2020

Like The Contender's Laine Hanson 20 years prior, US Democratic Party Vice-President choice, Kamala Harris, cuts the oxygen feeding the US political climate's raging sexism.

Books/Reviews

Kent Russell Seeks the Soul of Florida on Epic Road Trip, on Foot

Linda Levitt / 16 July 2020

In a bit of drunken revelry, Kent Russell and his buddies decide it is their destiny to tell the gonzo story of Florida in the time when Trump is campaigning for president.

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Parallels of HIV/AIDS in Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’ and COVID-19 in Trump’s America

Timothy Barnett / 23 June 2020

Tony Kushner's Angels in America foreshadows our current state of sick politics and bodies and, in particular, the presence of Trump in a time of plague.