The nominations for the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame differ wildly in sound and style

In the early 19th century, Richard Potter was an icon — the most celebrated ventriloquist and magician in America

From privatized water to Social security, GOP Senate hopeful Blake Masters has grand plans for change

Edward Baptist on horrifying truth that we memorialize Confederate soldiers and not Americans who died enslaved

While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.

Stephanie Zacharek reviews "The Last of the Savages" by Jay McInerney.

Giant glass sex toys aside, the chemistry between Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen just isn't there yet

"Tender Is the Night" transports me to my own version of the French C

My suggestion that the "B" in LGBTQ implies legalizing plural marriage got angry replies

The Louisiana Republican introduces an amendment that brings up issues as old as the government itself

When the Heritage Foundation head can’t even admit it took "big government" to end slavery, we have a race problem

To understand the powerful appeal of the movement to many of its adherents, a narrative history is first required

"The Wind Done Gone" puts a chokehold on Scarlett & Co., but the South's infatuation with its past will never die.

Tiny microorganisms help transform chocolate’s raw ingredients into the much-beloved rich, complex final product

Half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, New Jersey's still captive to its racist past