The Onion: 20 Years Later
Substacknewsletter · by James daSilva · English
Reviewing The Onion from exactly 20 years ago to laugh, see what holds up and revisit cultural references we forgot about.
- Audience
- 17K subscribers
- Shown publicly on Substack
- Observed frequency
- Several times a week
- From 5 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Nov 1, 2026
- 9 days ago
- Likely audience
- media historians
- Inferred from post content
The Onion: 20 Years Later is a Substack newsletter by James daSilva covering satire, political commentary and media history. NewsletterFIT indexed 5 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Nov 1, 2026. Shown publicly on Substack: 17K subscribers.
Topics
- satire
- political commentary
- media history
- election coverage
- North Korea
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