David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2025 as chosen by our readers.

The magazine taught its readers to never swallow what they’re served. Nick Lehr/The Conversation via Jasperdo, CC BY-NC-ND Mad Magazine is still hanging on. In April, it launched a reboot, jokingly ...

Thanks to satire like The Simpsons and The Daily Show, it’s hard to imagine a time when irreverent humor wasn’t everywhere. But the 1950s were much different. Anti-establishment humor wasn’t part of ...

Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) can cause a rare but fatal disease in people called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). But the risk of getting vCJD from eating beef ...

At its core, Mad Max is a game about the death of hope. It’s about learning to find something to cling to in a pointless existence of murder and regret, and then watching it turn to ash in your hands.

In November 2003, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly invited the rapper Cam’ron to The O’Reilly Factor. As Cam’ron and his manager Dame Dash defended their music to O’Reilly, the segment grew somewhat heated ...

Jonathan Winters and Phil Silvers in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." I was totally surprised — and delighted — when the Criterion Collection invited (and, full disclosure, paid) me to ...

His illustrations of celebrities for Mad magazine’s movie and television satires inspired countless cartoonists. Actors, politicians and others knew they had made it when he drew them. By J. Hoberman ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Alfred E. Neuman finally has a reason to worry. Mad magazine, the class clown of American publishing, is being shuffled off to the periodical equivalent of an old-folks home at the age of 67. After ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's a good reason why the new Mad Max game occasionally resembles this year's Mad Max: Fury Road: it's a canonical prequel that pits you against ...