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Can Satire Provoke Real Change in a Nation Divided by Humor?
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Can Satire Provoke Real Change in a Nation Divided by Humor?

By
Iain Ellis
/ 13 June 2017

We may be one nation in America, but today we appear to be living on different planets, as we are divided by humor, among other things.

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