The Onion began with a group of scrappy Gen Xers who wanted to poke fun at mainstream news. It's evolved into an at times ...

Author Christine Wenc on how The Onion created modern American news satire.

Given a federal election campaign, whiplash over tariffs, a mercurial leader to the south, plus a steady stream of everything ...

Author and founding member of The Onion Christine Wenc explores the satirical news organization’s origins and impact on ...

Straight out of an Onion story, Donald Trump fired the head of America’s cyber defenses just as the U.S. faces sustained and ...

"It’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth," the ...

So "The Onion," you know, sort of went into the middle ... had values they wanted to express through their satire, and that's, that's kind of how all that stuff kind of mixed together.

New book about the in-depth history of the original fake news humor publication, The Onion. Author and historian Christine Wenc is one of The Onion’s original staffers. The book reveals how a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — April 15, 2025 In a move that sent shockwaves through the upper Midwest's dwindling sportswriting community, ...

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more ...

Gavin Mario Wax, 31, best known as a strident Republican activist — and a recurrent irritant to state and regional party ...