Currently in Salon

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  Democrats aren't dead yet
  Tuesday's retirement news may look worse than it really is for this year's elections
  Mike Madden
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  Terrorized by the media
  Spare us the sky-is-falling hysteria. If anything, the failed bombing shows how little we need to fear al-Qaida
  By Gene Lyons
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  "Youth in Revolt": Michael Cera, sex god?
  The eternally endearing nerd plays a convincing cad in this offbeat, good-natured teen comedy
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  The littlest YouTube sensation
  The strange tale of Lukeywes1234, lover of "Star Wars" and unlikely inspiration for a bizarre porn prank
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Dodd's heir -- Lieberman's nightmare
  Popular, principled Dick Blumenthal, the next likely senator from Connecticut, will surely irk Joe Lieberman
  By Joe Conason
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  Casey Johnson's grief tweets
  The strange spectacle of celebrities (Tila Tequila, Paris Hilton) mixing relentless self-promotion with mourning
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Lucky pork and sauerkraut
  A recipe that saved the author's life, not from starvation, but from his own stupidity
  By Ian Knauer
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  For all the married ladies out there
  I'll give you what your husbands don't ... for a price!
  By Ruben Bolling
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  What makes a woman "real"?
  Well, nudity, for one. The rest is up for debate
  Tracy Clark-Flory
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  Obama: Christmas attack due to failure to analyze intelligence
  "We have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly," the president says
  Alex Koppelman