Currently in Salon

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  Why Democrats must pass healthcare reform
  I side with kill-the-bill progressives for the long term, but I say pass the bill in the short term. Let me explain
  Joan Walsh
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  A progressive marriage?
  What the Democrats can learn from the Republicans about managing the ménage à trois within the party
  By Michael Lind
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  The best TV of the decade
  The show of the '00s was like a great novel. Plus: Gangsters, vampire slayers and Jon Stewart
  By Heather Havrilesky
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  All I want for Christmas is quotation marks
  Too many authors shun this humble form of punctuation
  By Laura Miller
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  Directors of the decade: No. 6: Michael Moore
  Whether you love him or want to punch him in the mouth, he is rallying the troops in the rhetorical civil war
  By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  My Christmas vision
  In a 10th Avenue deli, an elegant girl from the prairie manages a herd of damaged boys with grace and good humor
  By Garrison Keillor
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  Another old man rant
  When did sleds become so wimpy?
  By Keith Knight
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  Chef's night in
  Some people spend their holidays more relieved than relaxed
  By Amanda Cohen and Michael Laiskonis
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  Carrie Bradshaw: Feminist icon?
  In reviews of the decade, the "Sex and the City" star is called both an enemy and a heroine to women
  Tracy Clark-Flory
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  Welcome to the fashion funhouse
  Crystal Renn is just a hot model to the casual observer -- but in the industry, she's a revolution
  Kate Harding