Currently in Salon

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  2009: Wall Street bounced back, Main Street got shafted
  This year, "shared prosperity" meant that J.P. Morgan and Goldman divvied up the dollars and cut us out
  By Robert Reich
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  The secret lives of brokers and lawyers
  Two spellbinding novels -- from Joshua Ferris and Jonathan Dee -- scrutinize the weaknesses of the ruling class
  By Laura Miller
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  Andrew O'Hehir's best movies of 2009
  I said: Bring me Filipina transgender hookers, opaque Jewish fables and class warfare! And here they are
  By Andrew O'Hehir
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  Stephanie Zacharek's best movies of 2009
  George Clooney's real performance of the year wasn't "Up in the Air." Plus: Jane Campion, "Star Trek" and madness!
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  Best bangs for your bubbly buck
  You'll love these wines Thursday night, and you won't resent your credit card Friday
  By Steven Kolpan
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  Charlie Sheen's unmerry Christmas
  Why don't domestic disputes take a holiday?
  Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Iran protests heat up to a boil
  Regime is losing its grip, but are people ready for full revolution?
  By Juan Cole
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  Films of the decade: "Up the Yangtze"
  The director of "Food, Inc." on Yung Chang's lovely doc about the transformation of China's legendary river
  By Robert Kenner
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  Directors of the decade: No. 4: The Dardenne brothers
  The Belgian duo have almost no American profile -- but their visual and moral integrity speaks for itself
  By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  The imaginarium of Terry Gilliam
  The visionary filmmaker talks about the strange, sad, spooky resonance of directing Heath Ledger's last movie
  By Andrew O'Hehir