Currently in Salon

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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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  The best nonfiction books of 2009
  True stories about science, art, crime and American history
  By Laura Miller
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  Coordinated blasts hit Baghdad; kill at least 118
  Attacks coincide with announcement of a date for parliamentary elections
  BRIAN MURPHY
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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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  This Modern World
  Escalating in Afghanistan? But ... but ... he never even mentioned the possibility!
  By Tom Tomorrow
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  Shocking news: The world is stable!
  China dominance? U.S. decline and fall? Believe it when you see it
  By Michael Lind
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  Winner: Goodbye, Nixon. Hello, dinner
  Salon Kitchen Challenge: This week's champ whips up a Tricky Dick-themed feast that's fit for a scandal
  By Rebecca Farwell
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  Buzzing through the holidays
  It's a Salon Bar Challenge! Plus: Last week's political feast winners
  By Francis Lam
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  I live in a van down by Duke University
  How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A '94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience
  By Ken Ilgunas
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  Becoming a piece of meat
  Julie Powell's racy follow-up to "Julie and Julia" -- and why she's fine turning into the new poster child for S/M
  By Thomas Rogers