There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works, and how ...

Tangled and disentangled at once, Stephen Kearse’s “Liquid Snakes” is both a diabolical thriller and wicked political satire set in, and unleashed upon, Atlanta. It’s a swinging beaker-bubbler, for ...

Biden is old. Trump has weird hair. Biden mangles the English language. Trump barely seems to understand it. There’s no question that it is easy to make fun of the two top presidential candidates for ...

I used to check the news of the day when I woke up in the morning. I no longer do. I also don’t check it right before sleep. Why start or end the day with reports of book bannings, attempts to control ...

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“The Regime,” premiering Sunday on HBO, is a well-made, beautifully designed, marvelously acted mess of a series. Created by Will Tracy, a writer for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and directed ...