Humor isn’t just amusement—it also reflects the dynamics of society. Humor can reinforce group identities, challenge authority, mobilize others to drive social change – and it helps us talk about ...

The art of coping with election anxiety has evolved significantly in the digital age. Gone are the days when people simply ...

Amid the 2024 US election, Google staff create memes mocking a policy against political posts.

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Like political ads, memes about candidates and campaigns have “minimal” impact in shaping voter engagement, according to some ...

We all know what took the majority of the internet's attention this week, but there were some other memes that broke through ...

So, of course the political compass became a meme that has come to signify as many things as there are plot points on its graph. For example, one political compass meme plots Satan (libertarian ...

On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme History” column. If you want to read columns like this a day before ...

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