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Standing room only for McCain
Mike Madden
There wasn't room for everyone who wanted to see John McCain's
100th town hall in the state -- not even the press.
The politics of not nice
Joan Walsh
John Edwards tells New Hampshire voters "you can't nice special interests to death." But nobody's saying Obama is too nice. Yet.
Let the voting begin
Compiled by Erin Renzas
Which Democrat should win the White House? On the eve of Iowa, Salon asks some favorite writers, activists and media personalities whose ticket they'll punch and why.
The Chuck Norris Show
Mike Madden
Mike Huckabee's biggest celebrity fan helps turn the vote out in Iowa. Maybe.
“I Am Legend”
Stephanie Zacharek
Is this moody saga of the last man on earth the most meditative blockbuster ever made?
Blackwater in Baghdad: “It was a horror movie”
Jennifer Daskal
New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in-depth, harrowing account to date of the U.S. security firm's deadly rampage in Iraq.
The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)
Walter Shapiro
The Democrats have their final pre-caucus debate, and it's just as dull as Wednesday's Republican dud. When Mike Huckabee tells Elizabeth Edwards a debate is boring, it's boring.
The GOP’s field of dreams
Walter Shapiro
Fred Thompson flickers to life. Mike Huckabee apologizes for bad-mouthing Mitt Romney's faith. But Wednesday's debate showed it's still anybody's race to win in Iowa.
What would we see if we were behind your eyeballs, Cary?
Cary Tennis
A reader asks a pressing question of quite another sort altogether.
Busting out
Sarah Hepola
Women pay good money for big boobs, but I never felt comfortable with my breasts. Now it's finally time to face down my fears and find a bra that fits.
“Shortcomings”
Jascha Hoffman
The new graphic novel by Adrian Tomine of "Optic Nerve" fame may finally secure his spot in the cartoon pantheon alongside Daniel Clowes and the Hernandez brothers.
Fake it until you make it: A housing flipper saga
Andrew Leonard
No. 1 on the list of people who shouldn't be bailed out by Bush's mortgage freeze plan: David Crisp, the one-time "hot shot of Bakersfield real estate."
The fate of the Earth, the Bush years
Tom Engelhardt
Jonathan Schell: "Everybody who has ever marched against nuclear weapons should dust off their boots and get back in the fray."
To spank or not to spank?
Carol Lloyd
New proposed Massachusetts legislation aims to make all corporal punishment illegal.
Michelle Obama gets real
Rebecca Traister
She may be too authentic for Maureen Dowd, but the bold and plain-spoken candidate's wife has made doubting Iowans into believers.
You, too, can be a campaign reporter!
Michael Scherer
Up to speed on Dennis Kucinich's UFO encounters? Know which candidate is Dick Cheney's cousin? Test your '08 savvy here.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
"The Amazing Race" and "Notes From the Underbelly" demonstrate that the joys and perils of family are as countless as the dirty dishes piling up in your sink.
Shecky Obama
Walter Shapiro
In a self-deprecating riff worthy of standup, the Illinois senator gets "Fired up!"
When did we become like Syria?
Alia Malek
As I watched a surreal torture case unfold in a U.S. courtroom, the line between dictatorship and democracy seemed to disappear.
America’s next top spouse
Rebecca Traister
A guide to the brassy, opinionated, loud, difficult and plum-crazy partners on the arms of their president-running partners. Who says the campaign season is dull?
The Smart car is coming
Katharine Mieszkowski
Sure, the tiny autos are perfectly suited for the narrow lanes of Paris and Rome. But here in the land of freeways and monster SUVs, are we ready to downsize so far?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
As America's supremacy falters, the cool kids take a hit, from CW's "Aliens in America" to VH1's "America's Most Smartest Model." Plus: Divorce, writers' strikes and other unpleasantness.
The agonizing truth about CIA renditions
Stephen Grey
The fate of prisoners secreted away under the Bush administration is in some ways worse than even Hollywood has portrayed.
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