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.

The character is also popularly used in internet memes. On Sesame Street, Kermit was a news reporter who gave a serious perspective to the hilarious events around him. Other characters on the show ...

"Are Bert and Ernie part of an extreme homosexual agenda?" asked Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, referring to the longtime "roommates" who live on "Sesame Street." In one of the few ...