Salon.com: Indictment of Michael Cohen said to be imminent as Trump fixer ponders cooperating with prosecutors

[Reports: Trump’s fixer is about to flip!]( Indictment of Michael Cohen said to be imminent as Trump fixer ponders cooperating with prosecutors Shira Tarlo [Is Trump deteriorating rapidly?]( Psychologist John Gartner on Trump’s behavior: “It’s a coup that’s not moving slowly anymore” Chauncey DeVega --------------------------------------------------------------- [After Singapore: Did Trump get played?]( After the Singapore summit: What happens when Donald Trump realizes he’s been played? Heather Digby Parton --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Harvard snowflakes of 1975]( The Harvard snowflakes of 1975: What today’s campus scolds get wrong about college students Jim Sleeper --------------------------------------------------------------- [The most controversial food writer]( New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed my book; now I know why so many chefs hate him Andrew Friedman --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael K. Williams]( The Emmy-nominated actor, who played Omar on HBO’s “The Wire,” talks about how he came into his latest role in the action thriller “SuperFly” with Salon’s D. Watkins. In the film, Williams plays Scatter, the wise mentor of the street game, not unlike the old school teachers he’s played on-screen—Omar, Chalky White in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and Freddie Knight in HBO’s “The Night Of.” “I grew up idolizing brothers like that. I saw a lot of OGs and a lot of potential that got wasted," he said. No matter the character's circumstances, Williams' strategy is bringing humanity. “All my characters are a sum of all my experiences growing up in Brooklyn,” Williams said. “The main ingredient I bring in is compassion and empathy and the human being aspect… because I grew [up] in the hood, I got to see the other side of those people than how they were made to be depicted on the news in their cases.” Williams also opens up about another recent role, Leonard, the gay, cowboy hat-wearing Republican he plays in SundanceTV’s series “Hap and Leonard.” “For Leonard, all I saw was a black man who’s been oppressed. A black man who was bucking against tradition,” Williams said. The role speaks to Williams’ greater life’s goal as an actor. “I believe underneath all the prettiness, this nice suit, the nice haircut, and all that shit, I’m a fucking mess inside. I believe we’re all just one big mess underneath. It’s the messiness, it’s the ugliness that I’m most interested in because that’s where, hopefully through my work, I can give somebody freedom.” Watch the full episode above to hear about the project that’s near and dear to Williams, which he calls “my message to young people from my heart.” His VICE documentary on HBO “Raised in the System” explores America’s prisons through the lens of the systemic problems within the juvenile system’s school to prison pipeline. Tune in for SalonTV's live shows, ["Salon Talks"]( and ["Salon Stage"]( , daily at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT and 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, streaming live on [Salon]( , [Facebook]( and [Periscope]( . [Salon Talks: Edie Falco]( Whether it’s with her smile or her voice or, most indelibly, her expressive eyes, Edie Falco has a unique ability to draw audiences in. She did it, most famously, as Carmela Soprano, in HBO’s “The Sopranos,” and when that show ended, she kept it coming, first as the title character in Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie,” and then in a series of independent films, the latest being “Outside In,” which premieres in New York and Los Angeles on March 30. On “Salon Tallks,” Falco spoke with Salon’s Tom Roston about her character in “Outside In,” a teacher in a troubled marriage who finds purpose by helping one of her students, played by Jay Duplass, get out of jail. Falco says she values how the film covers “the gray areas of existence.” She discusses her animal rights activism, the similarities between Carmela Soprano and Ivanka Trump and what she says may be the best acting she’s ever done: It was on the night of Donald Trump’s election and she put on a good face for her middle school-aged son. “This is what you call democracy,” she recalls saying. “He kind of bought that. And since then, I haven’t stopped cursing,” the Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner joked. Check out the full interview to hear more from Falco about acting, the MeToo movement and “Outside In.” Tune in for SalonTV's live shows, ["Salon Talks"]( and ["Salon Stage"]( , daily at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT and 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, streaming live on [Salon]( , [Facebook]( and [Periscope]( . --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats flip pro-Trump district]( Blue wave continues in Wisconsin: Democrats flip another Trump district Matthew Rozsa --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roseanne, Soros and anti-Semitism]( Roseanne Barr, George Soros and the far right’s latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory Conor Lynch --------------------------------------------------------------- [Learn to tap into your inner designer]( Master the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite Salon Marketplace --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scott Pruitt: Hiding a radical agenda]( Scott Pruitt is burying his radical pro-polluter agenda under oceans of boring legalese Amanda Marcotte --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Retta made her dream a reality]( There’s no shortage on dreams­–– like Dr. King, everybody has one. The only problem is that people think that just dreaming alone is enough, not taking the time to understand the role that hard work and strategic planning play. Salon 5’s D. Watkins recruited comedian Retta to help teach us how to sprinkle action and motivation on top of those dreams. The author, comedian and actress, who most people know as Donna from “Parks and Recreation,” shares some secrets from her new memoir “So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know.” Check them out above and watch D’s [full episode]( with Retta to hear about the big role never got to audition for because she chickened out. Tune in for SalonTV's live shows, ["Salon Talks"]( and ["Salon Stage"]( , daily at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT and 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, streaming live on [Salon]( , [Facebook]( and [Periscope]( . [“Angels in America” returns]( When Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” landed on Broadway in 1993 it forever changed how gay lives were depicted in popular culture. On its 25th anniversary, authors Dan Kois and Isaac Butler join Salon’s Amanda Marotte on “Salon Talks” to share the oral history of the breakout show that won a Tony Award, a Pulitzer Prize and sparked a hit HBO adaptation starring Meryl Streep and Al Pacino. Kois and Butler’s new book “The World Only Spins Forward” pieces together nearly 250 interviews, including Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Nathan Lane, and playwright Tony Kushner. For both Kois and Butler, who are huge fans of the show, they took great care to ensure that the oral history matched the aesthetic and overall themes of the original production. Kois told Salon, “The play is so much about the interchange of voices and a dialectic of people arguing points… points of love and faith and politics and idealism. And so the idea of having all these people talk to each other on our pages seemed like a great way to sort of pay tribute to that.” Check out the episode above to hear more about the play’s cultural significance, how it took on the emergence of AIDS and helped accelerate the nation’s changing attitudes around homosexuality. 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