In one week, American voters will “Pokemon Go to the polls.” From coconut trees accompanied by “Von Dutch” to Donald Trump’s recent stint as a McDonald’s worker, in the past decade, political memes ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Google employees are, as ever, memeing through it. As the 2024 US election unfolded, Googlers have ...

Source: “The Temptation of Christ” (Public Domain, Artist Unknown), meme created by Megha Arora . Politics often seems like cheerleading. The metaphor is apt, for cheerleading is about signaling and ...

The Kamala Harris political compass meme uses the traditional grid format but replaces political positions with pieces of Harris quotes. Social media users are taking the template and placing ...

The previous week, claims that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pet cats in Springfield, Ohio, had begun circulating on social media. None of the reports had been substantiated, and local ...

Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don't trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, imagine a flood of political images, hateful memes and mocking videos ...

Speed and novelty are two essential elements when it comes to out-memeing a political opponent. By Joseph Bernstein Most memes age like milk. Ephemeral and ironic, the viral jokes are usually created ...

In the midst of a heated presidential election, political memes provided moments of levity — and frustration — for voters. The presidential candidates and their running mates tried to use social media ...

When the clock struck midnight on Oct. 1, a battle began to unfold in Washington, D.C. It was not, as some may have hoped, about how to reopen the government. No, for better or — more likely — for ...

From the photo of Trump’s post-assassination attempt fighting fist to Kamala sitting atop a giant coconut on the cover of New York Magazine, these units of culture distill the personality of the ...

As campaigns increasingly communicate via meme, cat videos are outranking reality. By Charles Homans Follow along with live updates on the Trump and Harris campaigns. By the time the Arizona ...