Unlikely eco-warriors. By Mark Hertsgaard
Bankers and insurers team up with Greenpeace to save the world from global warming.

Burning Down the House. By Gary Kamiya
Intent on making history, Newt Gingrich may become its victim.

The SALON Roundtable: Does the Republican Revolution have a future?
Arianna Huffington, Charles Peters, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Drew and Martin Anderson debate the successes and failures of the Gingrich-led uprising.

Blood Ties. By Laura Miller
Behind today's feverish obsession with vampires lurks the desire to create the cool family we never had.

Risky Business. By Ron Dicker
Harvey Keitel defends Quentin Tarantino and the right of film artists to risk failure.

The SALON Interview: Jamaica Kincaid
The Antiguan author of the new novel "Autobiography of My Mother," who went from being a penniless au pair to a staff writer for The New Yorker, recently resigned in disgust at Tina Brown's editorship. She speaks frankly about Brown and her own mother, who "should not have had children."