"Moneyball" and "The Tree of Life" weren't his first terrific roles -- but 2011 showed us a star in transition

Pick of the week: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña take on East L.A. in the dark, thrilling "End of Watch"

"My intention was not to hurt anyone," Wright said after backlash erupted

Hillary Clinton's supporters manage to erase plenty of people of color with their anti-Sanders talking points

"It would be very clear that there was nothing 'local' about what we're watching," the Fox News host added

UBI is a big distraction from questions we should be asking

The scariest part of the national response to massacres like Buffalo is our collective numbness

Pauline Kael picks five favorite novels that have something to do with the movies.

A teacher is suspended for an epithet-laced rant, and argues he's just talking like his students

Each new Catwoman has cosmetic changes – "The Batman" makes her sort of bisexual – but stays fetishistically flat

Chicago's mayor has been embroiled in a horrifying police-abuse scandal. This should be front-page news nationwide

Christmas family photos bristling with guns aren't funny — they're a direct appeal to white Christian fascism

The quickest way to go from "heartless bitch" to "diplomatic swan."

Salon talks to Nancy Isenberg about America's history of race, class, eugenics and the myth of social mobility