"Zero Dark Thirty," the saga of a C.I.A. agent's ten-year mission to capture Osama Bin Laden, required an almost minimalistic performance from Chastain. "I'm playing a character who's trained to be unemotional and analytically precise," says the actress.

Brit actor Sam Riley talks taking on Kerouac in On the Road.

Electric vehicles don't have all that many moving parts, or many components that will wear out regularly.

New encryption programs generate hardened passwords and manage them in one secure location.

There is a new ruthlessness to class warfare, waged by the well-off and successful against everyone else. Some of it is allowed and justified as a sensible response to "political correctness": we are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

As facts are made and remade with increasing speed, the author of the book "The Half-Life of Facts" is worried that most of us don't keep up to date. That means we're basing decisions on facts dimly remembered from school and university classes -- facts that often turn out to be wrong.

Six weeks after reelection, President Obama sells out liberal Democrats.

Why to keep some EU holdings in a diversified portfolio.

From hot saunas to sour pickles, every culture has its preferred morning-after remedy.

Former professional musicians now hit high notes as vintners near Vancouver.

Making "Promised Land" with Gus Van Sant, who also directed "Good Will Hunting," allowed Damon to reflect on the last 15 years of his career.

Does the post-election outpouring of secessionist fervor exemplify a passing fancy? Or does it rather suggest a deeper, even revolutionary, change in the American political terrain?

Given Adam Lanza's isolation from the community, it is unlikely that any sort of threat assessment methodology would have identified him as a potential mass murderer of first graders.

With each passing day the anger and the violence on the West Bank increases. The tide has to be reversed to avoid another Intifada but unfortunately, the PA does not realize how much is at stake.

The Newtown massacre, so tragic and pointless, would be just another run-of-the-mill, made-in-USA afternoon in the places targeted by America's campaign of aerial terror.

Deep in the Newtown shooter's heart burned a hatred for those who occupied a different world than he could aspire to, who ignored him in what he imagined was their self-satisfied happiness. He attacked what he knew they value most.

The insightful new book, "A History of Opera," inspires an exploration of select challenges facing opera -- and offers suggestions for how those issues might be addressed.

In 1992, Asian Americans were less likely than whites to support Bill Clinton. This year, only African-Americans surpassed them in supporting President Obama.

We shouldn't be so quick to blame irony for our waning political commitment. It's the symptom, not the disease.

A short tour of four of the least-helpful reactions to an attack that slaughtered more than two dozen Americans. They come courtesy of a former presidential candidate (Mike Huckabee), an international media mogul (Rupert Murdoch), an Oscar-winning filmmaker (Michael Moore), and a famous crusading journalist (Geraldo Rivera).