"There's a very few people who actually make change happen — you are one of those people," Maher said to Musk

Children used to be encouraged to gaze on couples in flagrante as a "method of instruction"

It was a night to "talk about suicide out loud" -- and keep talking

The much-awaited North Korea episode features a weird dolphin show, but no examination of the government's cruelty

Two suicide bombers targeted authorities, killing nine police officers

Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine

Long before reality TV, Nathanael West exposed the dark, vulgar heart of celebrity-crazed America

With one devastating Twitter @-reply, "The View" co-host finally went viral for something fans and haters can like

400 million strong, Pentecostals -- Holy Rollers, tongue-speakers, "negro ranters" -- have been called "Christianity's Third Force." And after generations in separate wildernesses, Pentecostal churches are returning to their original vision of inclusion across racial and cultural lines -- a vision some critics brand as heretical.

The way Donald Trump's father treated him affects us all now

In her "SNL" opening monologue, the comedian took on childbirth, weird marriage sex, autism and more

The Times columnist says he was wrong to disdain organized labor. But is he now right for the wrong reasons?

Trump's comments in Asia are an abomination, but let's not give the CIA and NSA a pass on their actual record

'Grimm's Grimmest' restores the original Grimm fairy tales in all their bloody detail. Illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray, introduction and translation by Maria Tatar.