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The Onion
November 18, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
You Won’t Believe Who’s Trying to Stop The Onion Buying Infowars
The call is coming from inside Alex Jones’s house.
November 14, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Alex Jones Is Having a Total Meltdown Over The Onion Buying Infowars
This is the absolute best way this could have ended.
November 14, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
The Best People Just Bought Alex Jones’s InfoWars
The satirical outlet The Onion purchased Alex Jones’s vile hate machine at bankruptcy auction with the help of the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
May 17, 2016
Adam Peck
Donald Trump is one of those people who thinks The Onion is a real newspaper.
January 19, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Not a joke: Univision buys The Onion.
June 6, 2014
Emmett Rensin
The Great Satirical-News Scam of 2014
The Onion is funny. These other sites aren't—and that's intentional. They're cashing in on your gullibility and knee-jerk outrage.
February 5, 2014
Emmett Rensin
The Onion Has Become America's Finest Marxist News Source
October 22, 2013
Laura Bennett
Is the Onion’s Film Criticism Better Than Its News Satire?
August 30, 2013
Noreen Malone
The Onion Is The Country’s Best Op-Ed Page. Seriously.
May 10, 2013
Luke O'Neil
No More Fake News!
An earnest argument against satire
May 8, 2013
Molly Redden
The Onion's Chris Brown Send-Up Was Bad. But Not Writing It Would Be Worse.

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