For decades, shows like Sesame Street practically raised many kids. Today, not even Elmo is safe from the nation's culture wars and shifting media landscape.

A poster board highlighting a drag show performer, a pressing inquiry into the sexuality of Sesame Street puppet duo Bert and Ernie and a profanity-laced tirade all led to a lively congressional ...

As Congress threatens to defund public broadcasting, the defenders of PBS and NPR keep defending themselves by pointing to ...

Garcia asked Kerger about “Sesame Street” puppet duo Bert and Ernie. “These two guys actually live together. They’re friends. They’re supportive of each other,” he said. “Now that ...

We are told that public broadcasting is essential. They cover stories that for-profit newsrooms don’t. Over my career, I’ve had several friends who’ve worked in both public and private broadcasting.

He wasn't the only one to bring up the "Sesame Street" characters ... he ever been a member of the Communist Party?" and "Are Bert and Ernie part of an extreme homosexual agenda?" ...

on Wednesday invoked the names of several Sesame Street characters while arguing ... out the “extreme liberal agenda” pushed by Bert and Ernie, who he jokingly accused of promoting an ...

I was born in the 1960s and so when Sesame Street premiered in 1969 ... Snufflupagus, and Bert & Ernie. In fact at every stage of my life from childhood to old age, Jim Henson has had an influence ...

Democratic congressman Robert Garcia has mocked Republican efforts to defund the TV channel that airs Sesame Street, sarcastically asking if characters Bert and Ernie were “part of an extreme ...