Director of a startling new doc on Donald Trump’s infamous mentor explains why it was crucial to humanize him

Barr betrayed: Donald Trump has a long legacy of unceremoniously dumping the men who would move planets for him

Bad people make for good film, but this portrait of Donald Trump's personal hero proves that bio-docs are in crisis

Roy Cohn, Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani and so many more: Reporter Michael Rothfeld on Trump's world of slime

Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room.

Cohn modeled a style for Trump that was one part friendly gossip and one part menace

Donald Trump does stuff because he feels like it. Asking what motivated him won't get Mueller's inquiry anywhere

The Broadway revival has a record 11 Tony nominations. Salon talks to the authors of an oral history of the play

Cheney is no defender of democracy — she's a dinosaur who misses the old days when GOP corruption was more genteel

Media-savvy activists used art to raise awareness and battle AIDS. Why hasn't the left mastered those lessons?

What can we learn about our presidents from the people they were closest to?

Trump says his biggest regret is choosing Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general

The party's culture of concealment has led to embarrassment and personal destruction. Isn't it about time for the right to cure its homophobia?

“He is so stupid," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says of Trump. "He didn’t realize — he really is just so stupid"

The Tony-winning playwright behind "Angels in America" aims to put the president center stage in his next work