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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  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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  Senator presses for Arlington answers
  Grassley says "troublesome issues" need coordinated investigation
  By Mark Benjamin
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  Tom the Dancing Bug
  Coming soon to Fox News: Glenn Beck's Journalism Sale-A-Palooza!
  By Ruben Bolling
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  White House as helpless victim on healthcare
  Nonsense. The administration is getting the bill that it -- more or less -- wanted all along
  Glenn Greenwald
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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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  "Crazy Heart": Truck-stop romeo stripped down
  Jeff Bridges gives the finest performance of the year in this modest but glowing country-music drama
  By Stephanie Zacharek