Sophia A. McClennen

Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her latest book is "Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn't."

Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

5 Lessons Joe Biden should have learned from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss Sophia A. McClennen

Israel Gaza War Hostages Protest Israeli citizens

Why it's so hard to talk about Gaza Sophia A. McClennen

Benjamin Netanyahu

The end of the fair fight Sophia A. McClennen

Hasan Minhaj

Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj Sophia A. McClennen

Hasan Minhaj guest hosts

Hasan Minhaj and the New Yorker: Who decided comedy needed fact-checking? Sophia A. McClennen

Donald Trump

The news media is blowing Trump coverage again Sophia A. McClennen

Donald Trump

Sick of Trump? Try laughing at him Sophia A. McClennen

Red Tide Warnings

Neoliberalism made us broke. Now it's killing us Sophia A. McClennen

Donald Trump

Donald Trump is the worst kind of fool Sophia A. McClennen

Donald Trump

Why Trump will lose in 2024: He's committed the cardinal sin of reality TV — he's boring Sophia A. McClennen

Retrograde

"Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end Sophia A. McClennen

Wes Moore; Joe Biden; Jill Biden; Chris Van Hollen

Why the mainstream news media got its midterms election coverage so wrong Sophia A. McClennen

Retrograde

Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end Sophia A. McClennen

Michael Moore

Michael Moore predicts Democrats will win big in the midterms. Could he be right again? Sophia A. McClennen

Washington DC Capitol Line Graph

Stop obsessing over election polls — the less attention voters and the media give them, the better Sophia A. McClennen

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