Currently in Salon

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  Crazy of the Year!
  2009 will be remembered as the year that one man's craziness gripped America with fear
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  Queen Victoria to literature: Where is the love?
  Historical fiction has never given the longest-reigning monarch in English history her due
  By Laura Miller
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  Your picks for the Year in Crazy
  We couldn't fool you: Salon readers picked Beck and Taitz, too -- and some intriguing others
  Joan Walsh
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  Why "The Simpsons" no longer matters
  Twenty years after the cartoon's debut, an expert discusses its cultural demise -- and far-reaching impact
  By Thomas Rogers
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  Weathering the storm of stupidity
  Climate change deniers arm themselves with ignorance and fight bravely against science
  By Gene Lyons
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  Creating the amazing world of James Cameron's "Avatar"
  Producer Jon Landau talks about making the impossible possible in James Cameron's $200 million-plus spectacle
  By Andrew O'Hehir
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  Cash and gumption: food nonprofits to support
  Here are organizations from all over the country worth donating to
  By Francis Lam
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  Directors of the decade: No. 9: The sensualists
  What in the world do David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Michael Mann, Wong Kar-wai and Hou Hsiao-hsien have in common?
  By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  Senator presses for Arlington answers
  Grassley says "troublesome issues" need coordinated investigation
  By Mark Benjamin
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  Films of the decade: "Saraband"
  For his final, stunning cinematic confessional, the great Swede returned to familiar actors and themes -- in DV!
  Jeff Lipsky