The issue that should dwarf everything in sight today, planetary climate destruction, is normalized

Is there any reason to believe that each new generation of white people will be more tolerant than previous ones?

Salon sits down with the Broadway actor and "The Wire" star to discuss the American Dream and Black Americans

Nike darling Liu Xiang let down his nation. Shouldn't the poster boy for the new China have crawled across the finish line -- no matter what?

The horror at a Trump rally in Las Vegas last night has been nurtured by Fox News for years

A mighty cute Zac Efron plays the foil in Richard Linklater's affectionate ode to Orson Welles

John Cusack and Harold Ramis talk about making movies without selling your soul -- or dressing up -- and their very dark holiday comedy.

The internet recommended the Fox News star take a history lesson: "Can someone bring Tomi Lahren to Ellis Island?"

This masterly literary history from co-editor Greil Marcus does justice to our country's best and worst moments

Coates did end up deleting his Twitter account, though — points to West?

Salon speaks with the essayist about her new collection, "The Other Serious: Essays for a New American Generation"

How one 19th-century Midwesterner got us all doing the downward dog -- and paved the way for puppy yoga

The city comes alive with art and music and sadness, as New Yorkers rescue the anniversary from kitsch and voyeurism and political opportunism.

Supreme Court's recent decisions are not isolated: They're the culmination of a long right-wing assault on America

"Frontline's" new documentary offers a heartbreaking portrait of the new normal for the former middle class