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I’m tired of just being a man
Charles Siebert
How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
Who’s to blame for the housing crash?
Mark Schone
Alyssa Katz, author of "Our Lot," discusses the good intentions and mass delusion that led to the real estate boom
Night of the living neocons
Gary Kamiya
The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The polite vampires of HBO's "True
Blood" rise from the dead for a second season of blood lust and moral ambiguity.
The CIA’s secret history of psychological torture
Alfred McCoy
Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
Von Brunn’s letter to Jim Webb
Salon Staff
While in prison, alleged Holocaust Museum shooter sent Webb a long anti-Semitic missive seeking help with a pardon
Youth and euthanasia
Garrison Keillor
The world belongs to the young. At the end, there's a cocktail and memories of laughter.
Must I fake it?
Cary Tennis
Self-help books say "be yourself." They also say "be interested in others." For me, it's one or the other.
“I was horrified by the lengths men will go to mistreat other men”
Der Spiegel staff
Obama's great uncle, who helped to liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald, speaks before the president's Germany trip.
“If we kill schoolgirls, you shouldn’t be surprised”
Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada
Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down in northern Afghanistan.
Life of the potty
Robert Radin
Everyone's child obsesses about something. But why did my son choose urinals?
The worst parents in the world
Rebecca Traister
Screw Gymboree and breast-feeding! New confessional memoirs by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Lewis join an ever-growing genre lashing out at our expectations for today's mommies and daddies.
Rorschach “Rachel”
Andrew O'Hehir
An Israeli film explores the ambiguous death of Rachel Corrie, peacenik angel to some and "terrorist-loving swine" to others.
New evidence of a secret torture prison
Britta Sandberg, John Goetz
It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby.
The Tribeca-Sundance throwdown
Andrew O'Hehir
Is Robert De Niro's big-city festival at war with Robert Redford's ski-slope festival? OK, maybe not. But the backstage drama has the indie world in a tizzy.
At home with Alaska’s First Dude
Amy Benfer
Is Todd Palin the new model for American masculinity? And if so, what does that mean?
“But think of the things that were done to Iranians!”
Erich Follath, Dieter Bednarz, Georg Mascolo
An interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
They shoot real estate agents, don’t they?
Erica Ferencik
All I wanted was a good job I couldn't lose. I didn't realize I'd end up bringing down the global economy.
Rusty and me
Julie Limbaugh
I love my cousin Rush Limbaugh, even though I don't agree with him. Now please stop judging me by my last name.
Oakland mourns
Gary Kamiya
A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
The monster inside my son
Ann Bauer
For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.
I would like to take a vacation?
Cary Tennis
If I take a vacation, where should I go? How does one take a vacation? What is a vacation?
Afghanistan’s uncertain future
Pratap Chatterjee
Our military endeavor and unevenly distributed foreign aid have left the nation divided, not one country, but three.
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