If you heard federal legislators shouting overtop one another about Hillary Clinton’s emails last month, you might believe that American political discourse is completely broken. But that’s only true ...

Chris Watts, A.K.A. Dirt Reynolds, is a true son of the South and all that singular identity implies. With his blue-collar persona and gritty sounding delivery, he comes across as a no-nonsense ...

One of the biggest frustrations in local media is how national outlets cover issues in their own communities — often, overzealously, stereotypically, or just plain wrongly. Scalawag is a nonprofit ...

A scalawag, the dictionaries tell us, is a rascal, a reprobate, a scamp, a scoundrel. Now imagine that you’re researching one of your ancestors and you discover that not only was he called a “scalawag ...

At the end of 2021, my newsroom did something radical: We stepped away from our work for 30 days — fully paid. The news broke via Slack. Cierra Hinton, Scalawag Magazine’s executive director and ...

A scalawag may be a nogoodnik or even a paskudnyak, but in the subtitle of Benjamin Ginsberg’s brisk, informed “Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction” from Johns ...

According to the quote from William Faulkner often used to describe his native state of Mississippi: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That’s still true today, and you can hear distinct ...

Comedian Jon Stewart had some choice words for Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday after the Kentucky Republican called him a “guttersnipe” for criticizing his opposition to a 9/11 first responders bill. “I ...

As news broke that Kirk Douglas, one of the last of Hollywood’s Golden Age stars, died on Wednesday, stars from Old and New Hollywood honored the three-time Oscar nominee as a “a pillar of Hollywood” ...

WASHINGTON – Comedian and activist Jon Stewart proclaimed Wednesday that he will "escalate" a feud with Sen. Rand Paul after the Kentucky Republican voted against a bill that would reauthorize a fund ...