With the newest issue of the POROI Journal, Thomas Shevory returns to analyze responses in popular music to the U.S. war in Iraq. Linda Beail debuts with a film take on One True Thing, a mother-daughter movie starring Meryl Streep.

In addition, a Poroi Symposium on Rhetorics of Political Humor explores how America’s funny bone engages its elections. Russell Peterson assesses how late-night comedians can undermine presidents, potential replacements, and other politicians. Then G. R. Boynton and John Nelson trace how humor migrated from presidential to senatorial campaign spots in elections leading to the one now underway.

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