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City of vengeance
Phillip Robertson
A savage outbreak of retaliatory killings has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. In the first of three exclusive reports, our correspondent investigates the Mahdi Army's Baghdad death squads.
Deadly silence
Daniel A. Pinkston
Bush's obstinate refusal to hold one-on-one talks with North Korea has only made the secretive state more paranoid and hostile.
The lost boys of Colorado City
Kimberly Sevcik
Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.
“Slacker”: 15 years later
Brian Raftery
Richard Linklater, the pap-smear girl, the JFK guy and others remember the little indie creation that could, and all that came after.
The American dream
Greil Marcus
The real story of America is not about power, money or the march of armies. It is about a dream of liberty and justice and independence -- a dream that still comes true every day.
Who are you?
Laura Miller
More and more people are trying to trace their ancestry with a quick DNA test. A new book -- and my own experiment -- show that science can reveal some interesting things about your past, but not necessarily what you want to know.
Bite me!
Page Rockwell
Bad-boy chef and globe-trotting gourmet Anthony Bourdain gets frank about rude vegans, Rachael Ray and why restaurants are America's last meritocracy.
The artist as mad scientist
Kevin Berger
She is an intellectual and emotional storm. Her renowned public artworks are reshaping the ways we think about science. Activist, environmentalist and former rock promoter Natalie Jeremijenko turns the art world upside down.
Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?
Kim Zetter
Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.
How much is that blogger in the window?
Michael Scherer
In Las Vegas, Democrats court the netroots as if it were the AFL-CIO.
Not just Bush-haters in bathrobes
Michael Scherer
Forget starry-eyed idealism. The liberal bloggers gathered in Vegas for YearlyKos want to win any way they can.
Home sweet “Prairie Home”
JD Nordell
For two years I was a writer on Garrison Keillor's radio show. Then Robert Altman came to town to film "PHC" -- and I became an extra in the story of my own life.
“The Break-Up”
Stephanie Zacharek
Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn play a feuding couple in this underwhelming romantic comedy.
Bitter pills
Janelle Brown
Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.
Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child
Lynn Harris
Saying no to "timeouts," some fundamentalist Christians "train up" their children by carefully hitting them with switches, PVC pipes and other "chastening instruments."
“The Lemon Tree”
Sandy Tolan
In the summer of 1967 three Arab men return to their birthplace of Ramla and find themselves in an unrecognizable homeland.
Lapdogs
Eric Boehlert
Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time.
Addicted to war
Farhad Manjoo
"House of War" author James Carroll says the Pentagon is out of control, the Cold War was unnecessary -- and it's good that we're failing in Iraq.
Campus cruelties
Erin Sullivan
At Duke a decade ago, I got a glimpse of ugly male pack behavior I've never forgotten. Now I wonder about what my own small boys might do.
“This Book Will Save Your Life”
A.M. Homes
In an excerpt from A.M. Homes' new novel, Richard Novak realizes he is painfully, terrifyingly alone
Karen Finley smears Bush all over
David Bowman
The notorious performance artist talks about censorship, where Bush will go after he dies, and her new work "George and Martha," in which Martha Stewart has a tryst with W. and finds Osama hiding in his colon.
Nullifying the press
Jay Rosen
The Bush team served up Scott McClellan's stolid stonewalling as the perfect device to humiliate and demote the media. And reporters played along.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
$15 for an aisle seat? Northwest's new plan means class warfare at 30,000 feet.
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