Are U.S. politics beyond a joke?
- Written by Simon Doubleday, Professor and Chair of History, Hofstra University
“I really do respect the press,” President Barack Obama joked at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2013, shortly after his second successful election campaign. “I recognize that the press and I have different jobs to do. My job is to be president; your job is to keep me humble. Frankly, I think I’m doing...