The "Girls" creator nabbed a staggering advance for an advice book. And we wonder why big publishers struggle

Statistics show Southern states have the lowest economic mobility in the country. These phenomena help explain why

America may soon look a lot more like "Downton Abbey" than the Land of Opportunity

A Rooster and a Tiger hit the lotto of love, but are they about to squander their jackpot?

In "Joe Millionaire," with its lumpen-wacky TV vision of the rich, pop culture finally faces inequality in "classless" America.

It's a sword of Damocles over our banking system, and it looks more and more troubled as time passes

The only thing worse than the candidates this year is the shockingly biased liberal press. Plus: A frankfurter geography of America.

Rupert Murdoch buys Pat Robertson's fundamentalist family cable network, uniting Bart Simpson with John-Boy Walton at last.

Sen. John Cornyn and Lt. Dan Patrick of Texas exploit the deaths of 10 people to push for anti-immigrant crackdown

As a recovering football addict, all I want is for fans to stop deluding themselves about the sport I used to love

Commercial radio will have only itself to blame if the Internet ends up eating its pablum lunch.

Head "Late Night" writer spoke to Salon about the show's early days, the writers' room and Dave's notorious anxiety

Jobs are vanishing for young Americans, thanks to a narcissistic national politics that's disconnected from reality

Imagining a very different presidency, one in which Obama isn't scared to speak in clear and urgent moral terms