Kevin Spacey and Stephen Colbert Teach Obama How to Be an Effective President

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Sep 4, 2014 In response to some media pundits' wishes that the fictional president from Netflix's "House of Cards" deal with ISIS instead of Barack Obama doing so, the ever excellent Frank Underwood paid his fellow South Carolinian a visit on "The Colbert Report" on Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert: ‘ISIS Has Now Attracted the Most Heavily Armed, Violent People on Earth: Americans’

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 30, 2014 The "Colbert Report" host talks about the latest threat in the Middle East, the Islamic State, as well as Fox News' weirdly imaginative (or rather delusional) responses to ISIS, all of which are so detached from reality that the comedian decides it's time to invoke ghosts to explain current events in terms that right-wing pundits can truly get their heads around. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert: If We Put a Woman on the Dollar Bill, It’ll Be Worth Only 77 Cents

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 21, 2014 "The Colbert Report" is on a summer break, but here's a great clip you may have missed about women on U.S. currency. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert on ‘My Parents Open Carry’ Children’s Book

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 6, 2014 Though a storybook designed to explain a day in the life of a family that walks around with loaded guns sounds like something "The Colbert Report" host would make up for a laugh, it's a real thing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert Blasts Congress Members for Saying Central America Safe for Kids, but Not for Them

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 23, 2014 Though Rep. Steve Pearce deemed Honduras and Guatemala sufficiently secure for the child refugees at the U.S. border to be returned home there, he and the rest of the Central America assessment delegation rarely left their hotel during their two-day trip for fear of "dangers." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Best of ‘Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ on Independence Day

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 4, 2014 Missing your (somewhat) daily dose of late-night satire while Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on summer break? Fear not; we've rounded up some great clips from each show about the 4th of July. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert on the ‘Growing Cable News Consensus’ That Bowe Bergdahl Doesn’t Deserve to Be Alive

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jun 11, 2014 Traitor, loser, deserter. While Fox News can't seem to find enough insults to describe Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, CNN is busy wondering whether the prisoner of war modeled his life after the fictional TV series "Homeland." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert to Thomas Piketty: ‘Why Are You Trying to Tear Down the Western Economic System?’

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jun 3, 2014 The writer of the best-selling book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" that's on everybody's mind these days stopped by "The Colbert Report" on Monday for a reckoning with the faux-conservative host. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert Meets His Match in Elizabeth Warren

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 20, 2014 Even the pseudo right-wing pundit falls victim to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's compelling arguments. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Glenn Greenwald to Stephen Colbert: NSA ‘Story That Will Make the Biggest Impact’ Is Yet to Come

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 13, 2014 The "Colbert Report" host finally gets his hands on the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who brought us the Edward Snowden leaks on the National Security Agency. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not Vaccinating Your Kids Puts Children All Over the World at Risk (Video)

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 29, 2014 Brazil is now suffering the consequences of anti-vaxxers' selfish actions. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert Says Goodbye: ‘I’ve Won Television’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2014 "Almost nine years ago, I promised to change the world, and together, I did it," says Stephen Colbert, still in character as his self-obsessed conservabot doppelganger, while dropping in to rub it in on his onetime mentor Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" on Wednesday night. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )