In the new series "Hannibal," Hugh Dancy stars as Will Graham, a brilliant criminal profiler who is burdened with the ability to see events from a criminal's perspective.

Just as GOP filibusters have stalled President Obama's legislative agenda in the Senate, the party is pursuing a parallel strategy of preventing the administration from governing by blocking nominees for boards and agencies.

Why does the U.S. believe that only violent overthrow will work?

In a new biography of Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shales suggests that in our current era of fiscal and emotional incontinence, we have much to learn from this parsimonious president.

If Oracle CEO Ellison's plan works as it should, the America's Cup will morph from billionaire status symbol into real money-making sport league. That is his vision.

Of all his recent films, Johnson is arguably the most excited about his role in true-life saga about a trio of Miami bodybuilders who try their hands at kidnapping with disastrous results.

Hunting is suddenly fashionable in the United States. But what is remarkable is that this increased interest is coming not from people on the political right, but from those who usually identify with the progressive left.

The Chechen-born suspects who bombed the Boston Marathon may have viewed the US and Russia as partners in crime rather than enemies.

The Boston Marathon attack was the perfect opportunity for Iran's Grand Leader to explain to the non-Western world the unfair practices of the United States and the West.

The case for substantially expanding Social Security.

The fantastic book "Smuggler Nation" goes so far as to say that smuggling has shaped the America's identity and defined its essence.

Automakers gear up for a fight with California's zero emission rules.

The same U.S. news media that are conveying the preciousness of children so terribly harmed in Boston are scarcely interested in children maimed by U.S. cluster bombs.

Will firms make the effort to ensure their materials are conflict-free -- and should they?

The Western world has so little understanding of the Islamic world that the enormous enmity and visceral hatred that exists between Islamic groups has gone unnoticed.

What Shane Carruth seems to have done here is reinvent movies as a delivery system for narrative mystery instead of narrative data.

Anyone willing to attend to what J.M. Coetzee -- not Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John -- puts on the page will be rewarded with the extraordinary, exhilarating experience of tilting with enigmas.

Tips, shortcuts and hacks that make for a smooth ride.

Subscription services for natural products are taking off.

Anarchist feminist Emma Goldman famously said that she did not want to be part of any revolution that would not allow dancing. Likewise, not only men but quite a few women women want no part of a feminist revolution if it bans innocent compliments and silly off-color jokes.