Mary Kaye Schilling

This year’s best performances provided large helpings of humor, hope and humanity—just when we needed them most.

Angela Merkel’s preferred successor won leadership of Germany’s most powerful party at a time when the country and the EU are in crisis.

With hate crimes on the rise, the message from activist lawyer Bryan Stevenson couldn't be more urgent.

For the over 800 U.S. counties implicated in lynching, reconciliation and healing begin with a ceremony marking the site of the crime.

Nick Cave—the artist, not the musician—lights up Times Square with an exuberant vision of renewal and hope.

In a new book, 'Thanks A Thousand,' a writer takes gratitude to a radical new level.

The movie, starring Peter Dinklage, depicts the rollicking—and tragic—life of the "Fantasy Island" sidekick.

In the story of Norwegian militant Anders Behring Breivik, filmmaker Paul Greengrass saw an inciting moment for our fractured time.

Carlton Cuse created two CBS hits, co-created the already legendary 'Lost' and turned a classic horror film into a critically acclaimed TV show. How do you follow that up? With a 'Jack Ryan' series for Amazon.

The state of Tamil Nadu is now facing its worst drought in 140 years. India's government has promised aid, but little has come.

Fans fear for her character, Kim Wexler, on AMC’s "Breaking Bad" spinoff. A "volcanic" Season 4 could just do them in.

The auteur is now 45, yet somehow still the enfant terrible of film.

With his role on the Netflix hit "Glow," and one of the top podcasts in America, the once-struggling comedian is having a mainstream moment. Don't worry, he's still a mess.

The fastest-growing cannabis company in California is hiring parolees of nonviolent marijuana-related crimes.

The Criterion Collection restoration premieres at the Provincetown Film Festival. Waters reveals his favorite line, his core audience (prison inmates), the only place you should get a face lift and why he'll never be a heroin addict.

The 'SNL' alum delivered the most revelatory TV performance of the year, playing a contract killer on HBO's dark comedy "Barry." Now he’s ready to be terrorized by a clown.

The artist Robert Longo’s “Death Star” will debut at Art Basel in June, with a percentage of the sale going to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety.

It works out to about four books a week. Who says you don't have summer plans?

"It's completely awesome—and frankly nutso," says Anthony Bourdain of New York's "Palace of Secrets," the Carlyle Hotel.

She would like to play a woman written by McEwan "every 10 years."

With his new show, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas asks a simple question: Would you stand up for what you believe in?

“I find it curious that given the advances in women’s lives, contemporary dramatists still don’t find women interesting," said the 81-year-old actress, back on Broadway after 30 years.

"It’s so funny to read historians claiming Eleanor was a sheltered Victorian that wouldn’t know a lesbian if she fell across one, and I’m like, How can you imagine that to be true, given the evidence of her life?"

'Westworld'-style shows filled with twists and turns are everywhere—call it the Christopher Nolan Effect.

The third and final installment of Newsweek's epic, definitive and infallible ranking of every top Oscar winner since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.

Part 2 of Newsweek's epic, definitive and infallible ranking of every top Oscar winner since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.

Newsweek's epic, definitive and infallible ranking of every top Oscar winner since the start of the Academy Awards in 1929.

Part 1 of Newsweek's epic, definitive and infallible ranking of every top Oscar winner since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.

In a new book of essays, the British author takes scathing aim at memes, monsters and monosyllabic presidents

Here are the 16 comedies and dramas that got us through the year.

We found escape in fantasy, comedy, ravishing dramas, horror and sci-fi.

As Tonya Harding's mother from hell in "I, Tonya," the Emmy-winning TV star steals all of her scenes.