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"So barbaric that this should still be allowed," Joyce Carol Oates wrote, in a tweet that was taken quite literally by many online readers.

An investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project found that many states don't keep track of how many inmates are released directly from solitary confinement without any transition or supervision.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg says it's fitting that the Scripps National Spelling Bee is broadcast by ESPN. (And, by the way, a thamakau is a kind of canoe used in Fiji.)

Throughout his career, Moody played a variety of parts on stage and screen. But in the villainous Fagin, he found the role of a lifetime.

The FTC alleges that Erik Chevalier collected $122,000 from more than 1,000 backers and used the money on personal expenses.

Washington seems to have finally warmed up to the cool, puckered summer fabric that has a storied history in the nation's capital.

A new cookbook tells the story of the generations of Cubans and Cuban Americans and the food that ties them together.

He's being remembered as one of the most powerful and influential innovators in the history of jazz.

"Art car" events started as small, motorized processions of hippie artists, and have grown into an almost cult-like phenomenon.

We take our weekly look at how the news is reverberating through social media with Julia Turner, editor in chief of Slate.