As the FCC considers carving up more of the media landscape and handing it to the likes of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Free Press, Craig Aaron, is getting ready for battle.

Police officials need to show some humility and admit that there's far more to stopping crime than giving them more money.

One of the reasons that Wahlberg jumped at the chance to produce and star in "Broken City," is because it reminded him of "Chinatown," a film that captivated him as a boy.

Chuck Hagel, who has been nominated to become Secretary of Defense, shoots form the hip and enjoys controversy.

The anti-gay American Family Association has largely gone after corporations that have the means to fight back, but it crossed the line in late 2012 when it chose a new and more defenseless kind of victim: children.

United Fruit's heir has again been linked to paramilitary abuses in Colombia.

If you think becoming a mother has made Michaels warm and cuddly, you're mistaken. Judging by her still impressive death stare, only a true loser would dare say that The Biggest Loser's fitness guru gone soft.

Oenophile overlord Robert Parker has a short finish.

Talking to poet John Ashbery about his past, present and future.

When it comes to programming, the classroom is moving online. A new wave of start-ups are making coding trendy again.

In "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" Anne Applebaum argues that the history of Eastern Europe illustrates an unpleasant truth about humans: When enough people with resources and sufficient power are determined to destroy seemingly stable legal, political, and religious institutions, they are able do so with astounding speed.

Mashpi Lodge & Private Biodiversity Reserve in Ecuador has been designed with birders in mind -- albeit ones with some cash to spare as absolutely no luxury has been left unindulged.

In the most American of solutions, the pan-Arab news leader -- blacklisted by U.S. cable providers -- has gone ahead and simply bought its seat at the media table.

Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin's buried gold, but the Anishinaabe Indians are not having it.

Great organizations aren't devoid of conflict; they embrace it.

A clipper ship cruise in the Caribbean gives passengers a taste of what it's like to run up sails, climb to the Crow's Nest, and--under the crew's watchful gaze--take a turn at the helm.

In the dense, challenging and smart "The World Until Yesterday," Jared Diamond says that to give traditional societies a pass while criticizing our own is to do disservice to both worlds.

As travelers turn increasingly to e-readers and tablets, the allure of libraries might seem to be fading--but luckily, some hoteliers are preserving, and even revitalizing, the tradition of linking travelers with books.

For Brolin, a highlight of working on "Gangster Squad" teaming up again with Sean Penn, his co-star in "Milk."

Millions of progressives who understood the tactical wisdom of supporting Obama's re-election should now recognize that the time has come to renounce his leadership.