Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In “The Irony of Satire,” an Ohio State University study, it was found that ...

Glenn Ligon is an African-American artist who re-examines race and identity by changing words and shapes. His exhibition of black-and-white images in Lafayette College’s Grossman Gallery is a slyly ...

In China, the Mao heritage industry is thriving. The former communist ruler's image has shifted from political posters to tea cups and now, increasingly, Mao Zedong doubles reenact episodes of his ...

While dramatic irony entails a contrast between what an audience knows and what characters know, verbal irony is a contrast between words and their meaning, and situational irony is a contrast between ...

I know a few Holocaust jokes. I learned them from the children of survivors. I suspect they’d disagree with the Harvard student who declared that pain was no laughing matter. “I don’t think that jokes ...

You might remember David Low as the guy whose work illustrated your social studies text book on World War II. In the 1920s, early in his British career, the New Zealand-born cartoonist drew what was ...