Currently in Salon

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  Liberals will live without the public option
  The Senate compromise offers enough to make progressives forget about what had been a dealbreaker
  Gabriel Winant
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  The best fiction of 2009
  Sex, ghosts and infant monkeys featured in the finest storytelling of the year
  By Laura Miller
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  Democrats have healthcare breakthrough
  Agreement met -- but public option appears largely gone
  ERICA WERNER
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  The best nonfiction books of 2009
  True stories about science, art, crime and American history
  By Laura Miller
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  Is your man "pulling a Tiger"?
  Technology offers five ways to debase yourself before breaking up with him anyway
  Kate Harding
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  Bacon, cider and bourbon, together at last
  Get the rings and the bubbly ready, because you're going to officiate the wedding
  By Ian Knauer
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  Is the public option worth fighting for?
  Some liberals are saying no, if they can get a compromise to lower healthcare costs and expand Medicare instead
  Joan Walsh
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  Introducing: What to Read
  We pick the best book of the week, every week
  By Laura Miller
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  'Tis the season to be grumpy
  If you're tired of enforced joyfulness, go to New York: Christmas has some opposition there
  By Garrison Keillor
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  An antiwar radical bakes for the front lines
  During the Gulf War, a group of soldiers taught me about the realities of warfare -- and the value of cookies
  By Jodi Kasten