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May 22, 2026
Stephen Colbert’s Last Show: Laughing Well Is the Best Revenge
The “Late Show” cancellation was a disappointment. But a surreally lovely final episode turned it into a cancellebration.
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May 21, 2026
Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Cuba, and Why Food Banks Are Getting Squeezed
Plus, Stephen Colbert’s last show.
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May 21, 2026
Stephen Colbert’s Final ‘Late Show’ Marks the End of an Era
Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” satirized politics. Then his “Late Show” confronted a moment when politics became self-satirizing.
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May 8, 2026
The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’
In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
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April 6, 2026
In Savannah Guthrie’s Return to ‘Today,’ a Rare TV Example of How to Live With Not Knowing
With her mother still missing, the “Today” host’s comeback was a rare TV example of learning to live with not knowing.
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March 11, 2026
Through Violent Memes on Social Media, Trump Promotes the War on Iran
A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.
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