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Looking at the USA through the media mind of the country's ex-reality show star, cable news addicted, twitter-obsessed president.

"It’s a freedom movie; it’s not a slavery movie. It exists in a very perilous and conflicted time in our country, but it’s really about freedom and what you’re willing to do for it—not just for you, but for others." - Kasi Lemmons

When a healthful eating pattern goes too far, it may turn into an eating disorder that scientists are just beginning to study.

Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.

Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the military that “no one takes…seriously.”

Two new books on the fascist leader walk different paths; one identifying Hitler as key to virtually every juncture of the party’s rise and fall while the other looks more toward his racial worldview as profoundly preoccupied with ‘Anglo-America.

Two new memoirs portray the activist left over the last half-century.

John Sayles on his labor-uprising masterpiece Matewan, as it enters the Criterion Collection.

Food festivals are more popular and more elaborate than ever, but what’s not apparent to ticket buyers is that their growth has often been at the expense of the restaurants and chefs they’re supposed to promote.

Netflix has agreed to negotiate a first companywide contract with IATSE, the union representing the industry’s below-the-line workers.