History’s rhythm is steady—accusation, repression, regret. What varies is how long we let the middle part last.

When Jimmy Kimmel returned to television on Tuesday evening, the late-night host had sharp words for the conservatives who’d briefly forced him off the air. President Donald Trump had put Disney, ...

Cinetic, the talent management and media advisory company known for its work with indie auteurs, has signed screenwriter and bestselling author Gabriel Sherman. Sherman, whose work often explores the ...

new video loaded: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines transcript There are two things that are true about what President Donald Trump said at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. “He did ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra ...

Since his day, that advantage has shrunk as newspapers have winked out. Buchwald himself witnessed that market’s contraction. With it has coincided a thinning of the ranks of humor columnists. We have ...

But that doesn’t sit well with, you know, fascists. Fascism works best when people don’t oppose it, especially the people who ...

Joe DiPietro's 'Conscience' dramatizes U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's challenge to Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scare" campaign ...

There’s no question that the threats to free speech that have emanated from MAGA-land lately are reminiscent of the Red Scare led by the right-wing demagogue and U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in the ...

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded by her father Henry Fonda in the late 1940s, in order to protect free speech from government censorship. This comes ...

More than 550 actors, directors, writers and musicians — including Jane Fonda, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal, Gracie Abrams, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, John Legend, Janelle ...

Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, ...