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Europe vs. Google
Hilmar Schmundt
American Goliaths like Google and Amazon are quickly cornering the digital book market. Will online libraries doom the scholars and small presses of old Europe?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The new Worst Show on Television, "The Real World" crosses the line, and we all savor the final days of "Six Feet Under."
Retail therapy
Salon Staff
The case for Wal-Mart, and what happens when you don't get what you bargained for, this week in TT.
Jeff Gannon strikes back
Tim Grieve
Bob Novak invoked an old Jeff Gannon story in an effort to smear Joe Wilson and defend his own "integrity." Now Gannon is leaping to his own defense.
The victim and the killer
Phillip Robertson
Yasser Salihee was an Iraqi journalist. Joe was an American sniper. On June 24, 2005, fate brought them together on a Baghdad street.
True confessions
Salon Staff
Men who have been through "ex-gay" Christian ministries share their stories. While some insist they have overcome homosexuality, others say they were driven to attempt suicide.
Getting straight with God
Mark Benjamin
The Rev. J. Grace Harley used to be a lesbian who posed as a man to marry a woman. Now she has overcome cocaine and "little hot-to-trot women" and is speaking out to save homosexual sinners.
A political bombshell for Blair
Andrew Brown
Now that terror has struck London, will the British blame their leader?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Sing happy birthday to a nation of nasty despots, swarthy heroes and cringing, ineffectual oddballs, from Tommy Hilfiger to Bobby Brown!
After O’Connor
Compiled by Salon staff
What's next for abortion, gay rights and post-9/11 civil liberties? Activists and scholars debate the Supreme Court's future.
Serena and Venus descending
Joel Drucker
The Williams sisters became the brilliant icons that tennis needed. But their obsession with stardom is spelling the death of their game.
War? What war?
Gary Kamiya
As the Iraq nightmare deepens, Fox News and its cable competitors wallow in shark attacks and Natalee Holloway. If you don't cover a war, does it exist?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Sadists savor "Six Feet Under," and Kathy Hilton shows us how to pair a skeazy slut tartlet with a nice chardonnay. Plus: Runaway brides are people, too!
Great bad ideas
Heather Havrilesky
Morgan Spurlock searches for a deeper truth -- by turning a mom into a binge drinker and moving a fundamentalist into a gay enclave -- on his new TV show "30 Days."
The fog of war
Dan Glaister
A cameraman criticized by all sides for his video of a Marine apparently shooting an unarmed insurgent inside a Fallujah mosque says he doesn't regret releasing it.
When toddlers get fired
Neal Pollack
My 2-year-old son was booted out of his preschool for biting -- and now my wife and I are facing a summer of hell.
McCain vs. Frist
David Paul Kuhn
The Arizona moderate knocked out the Tennessee right-winger in the filibuster showdown. Does his victory foreshadow the 2008 primary?
Ribavirin turned my husband into a psychotic monster
Cary Tennis
My husband's treatment for hepatitis C has changed him beyond recognition. Should I leave him?
Friend fatale
Rebecca Traister
Whether it happens in a blowout battle or years of sniping comments, the ends of our girl friendships make us feel more alone, guilty and bereft than the ends of our greatest romances.
“A democracy can die of too many lies”
Bill Moyers
Television journalist Bill Moyers blasts flag-wearing phonies, reporters who parrot the government line, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "dangerous" campaign to silence dissenting voices.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Phallic missiles, flaming Veronicas and fighting models! I love my favorite shows so much, I only have eyes for them -- except when I don't.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
The most amazing film I've seen in a while -- you must immediately try to find it. Plus: A true tale of bad Hollywood parenting, and an up-close look at kick-ass stuntwomen.
The angry patriot
Christopher Ketcham
Enraged by illegal immigration and traumatized by 9/11, Chris Simcox convinced hundreds of volunteers to join his Minuteman Project. Their goal: Seal the border and restore their American dream.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Who's sexier, a runaway bride or a moody young doctor in training? What's more alluring, a sweaty ham sandwich or Tyra Banks?
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