Political Comedy and Pop Culture

On the first day of President Trump’s second term he pardoned the Jan 6 rioters, gutted America’s climate policies, raised the price of insulin and pulled out of the World Health Organization. Elsewhere, presidential advisor Elon Musk is doing damage control after making an apparent Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebration. Academy Award-winning actor Michelle Yeoh, who has been a “Star Trek” fan since she was a kid, describes the devastating lethality and personal style of her character Philippa Georgiou in the new film, “Star Trek: Section 31,” which is available this Friday on Paramount+.

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