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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

The Onion’s still on point, Stephen Hawking mends the heart of teenage girls everywhere, and Nicki Minaj attends a Bar Mitzvah on the internet this week.

Jon Stewart hosting "The Daily Show"

So what will you watch now? 5 suggestions.

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The World

Finding plot threads before ‘LOST’ finale

Arts, Culture & Media

Serbian group takes cues from The Onion

Global Politics

Ben Karlin on ‘Fair Game’

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The World

Satirical Serbs Go Global

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Clark Boyd profiles a group of Serbians who want to give The Onion a run for its money. Meet the people behind The Global Edition.

The Onion: From Fake Sexiest Man Alive to Real News

When it comes to the real and the unreal, it’s not always easy to tell the difference, especially when it comes to our political leaders. Someone’s always having an affair. Someone else is embezzling money. This guy is pretending to be straight when he’s gay. That person is the supreme leader of North Korea  and  the sexiest […]

Comedian Baratunde Thurston on ‘How to Be Black’

February is Black History Month, and comedian Baratunde Thurston wants you to know that it’s the perfect time to buy his new book, “How to Be Black.” “The odds are high that you acquired this book during the nationally sanctioned season for purchasing black cultural objects, also known as Black History Month,” he writes. “If […]

The World

Onion story

Arts, Culture & Media

Corrections are part of the news business. But a couple of newspapers in Bangladesh are apologizing for making a BIG mistake this week. Here’s a quick summary. They printed a story; the problem was� the story came from satirical news website, The Onion.

The World

Ben Karlin

Arts, Culture & Media

Ben Karlin, a former editor of The Onion and former head writer for The Daily Show, talks to Faith about his new collection of essays, “Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me.”