Springfield, Ill., where Barack Obama officially announces his presidential campaign on Saturday, has a tortured racial history. What happened, and what it could mean for Obama.

Not only is Michael Apted's historical drama about an anti-slavery activist lively and funny -- it stars a serious dreamboat. Huzzah!

In an otherwise sleepy press conference, Bush says he regrets saying "Bring it on."

DOJ dropped charges against official linked to drug trafficking after Trump attorney general's intervention

Why are we so obsessed with two meteors of human attention colliding in prurient orgasm? Plus: Will Prince William become a photo slave or will he be as the wisteria tree?

"Excellent Sheep" has proved how hard it is to question the worth of elite education without provoking a firestorm

We're always told we need a "national service." But feel-good class-mixing gimmicks are no cure for inequality

"Soon, they’ll be telling you that Fox News — not China — caused this pandemic," Carlson claimed on his broadcast

Golding didn't see a place for women in savagery back in 1954. This show would have proven him very wrong.

Four remain unaccounted for as rescuers enter site of the worst U.S. mining disaster in two decades

The press secretary lashes out at "sore losers" after Fox News asks her about the Mueller team’s criticisms of Barr

My suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bulls**t"

Hint: it's not the breast-feeding -- it's the contempt

"Can a single human actually be as loathsome?" the Fox News host asked of the congresswoman of color