Currently in Salon

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  A big double standard for Obama
  Bush took a week to talk about the shoe bomber and then tried him in court. So why is Cheney savaging Obama?
  Joan Walsh
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  Charlie Sheen's history of violence
  Why is Sheen such a major star with his startling history?
  Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Directors of the decade: No. 2: Miyazaki & Pixar
  Pixar's animation is loaded with beauty and feeling -- but Hayao Miyazaki's work disturbs and challenges us
  By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  The year in celebrity meltdowns
  Temper Fi! When stars attack, or otherwise go nuts in public, we love it -- often more than we love their work
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Films of the decade: "The Five Obstructions"
  The Danish bad boy's bizarre challenge produces the most distinctive nonfiction film of the '00s
  By Peter Debruge
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  Cause and effect in the "Terror War"
  What sentiments do we think we're unleashing in the Muslim world from our still-escalating "five-front" war?
  Glenn Greenwald
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  When the kids make dinner
  Nostalgia for some really very bad times
  By Sueinaz
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  God changes with the weather
  In warm Southern climes, one man's warrior view of the Great Giver of Truth gives way to a hedonistic pantheism
  By Garrison Keillor
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  The K Chronicles
  Life's little victories on our trip to Germany
  By Keith Knight
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  Obama speaks again on attempted terror attack
  "A systemic failure... occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable," the president says
  Alex Koppelman