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In "Coup!" [review], Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen drive a pandemic satire with very confused politics.

It’s the week after Labor Day. Did you a) buy a mattress or appliance? b) get snarled on busy highways or in airports? c) relax from your labors? And d) hear or read about the state of labor …

You've heard of Crisco, you may have even used it in baking in the past. But how much do you really know about the shortening brand that's gone out of style?

When Jacob Riis came to Emporia in 1902 to give a lecture, audiences knew what they could expect. Twelve years earlier, he had published “How the Other Half Lives,” which exposed through candid …

All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Journalists and Their Shadows is out now from Clarity Press.

BENNINGTON — Jay Craven’s new narrative feature film, "Martin Eden,” based on the novel by Jack London, will screen at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29 at the Bennington Museum. The

This Labor Day weekend, I’ll be thinking of all the muckrakers who shamed and shocked a nation until it enacted child labor laws.

During Hollywood strikes, studios turn to reality TV. But reality stars are sick of poor treatment – and ready to fight back

Taking inspiration from 'Parasite' and Chris Cuomo, Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman fashioned a comedy thriller set during the Spanish Flu epidemic.

Longtime contributor to The Oak Ridger, Martha Moore Hobson, writes about what Labor Day is really about or should be about these days.