“Over the weekend it sunk in that they’re killing off our show,” Stephen Colbert reflected at the top of The Late Show on Monday, following a tempest of outrage over CBS’s suspiciously timed cancellat...

“Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid — this is not a ‘We speak truth to power.’ We don’t. We speak opinions to television cameras. But we try. We fucking try, e...