Tenured professors who can't be fired: they're just like us!

The actor returns to comedy, and fans following him may not miss Slipping Jimmy as much as they'd think

In my kinder and gentler personal version of Cronenberg's "Videodrome," my favorite shows kept me company at home

The vice presidential debate "winner" would "set aside talk of institutional racism" and enable police brutality

Congress is increasingly using "quiet time" and Buddhist teachings to inform its approach to politics. Here's how

The treasury secretary's home mortgage rescue plan subverts traditional Republican market ideology. Also: Solving the Ben Stein problem.

A bailout for Wall Street is almost ready to go, but the House GOP is still balking. A meeting at the White House is coming up soon.

Commercials feature the best music on television, but that hasn't gotten in the way of more soundtracks from "Friends," "Buffy," "Ally," "The Simpsons" and more.

Those who are better or worse off following this long, amazing presidential campaign.

Trump says he's taking cues from Ronald Reagan and JFK for his inauguration speech. Will he pull it off?

The freshman representative tells Stephen Colbert about her explosive rise from bartending in the Bronx to Congress

Before it became an cash machine for station owners, radio was briefly the province of madmen who made it the liveliest medium in America.

Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 19, 2000

The unrelenting darkness of "Breaking Bad" makes the homicide detective show "Castle" look like a fairy tale by comparison.

Recently I got a hot tip about U.S. war crimes in Iraq. It led me to some very cold, very weird places.