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Was he black or white?
Cecelie S. Berry
As a middle-class black woman, I've had to deal with the intricacies of racial consciousness my entire life. Now my sons are part of an idealistic generation that believes race doesn't matter. Which of us is right?
The human monster
Andrew O'Hehir
The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path.
Boys! Give me boys!
Jennifer Allen
Before I had children, I said to myself: "Better boys than girls. Boys are easy." But raising three young sons is wilder than I could ever have imagined.
Mother for hire
Debra Ollivier
I wanted Marta to love my children like her own. But to see the growing bond between them was to experience the silent confirmation that my role as mother had potentially been usurped.
Just one more question, Mr. President
Tim Grieve
George W. Bush appears before the press in prime time tonight. You've got some questions for him.
Senator Franken?
David Paul Kuhn
He's good enough, he's smart enough, but doggone it, will people vote for him? To find out, Al Franken is moving his radio show back home to Minnesota to get ready to run against Sen. Norm Coleman.
John Edwards 2.0
Peter Dizikes
He's honing his stump speech and exhorting Democrats to stay the course. But can the twice-rejected pol hold the limelight until 2008?
Life of the Party
Tim Grieve
Brian Schweitzer, the blue governor of the red state of Montana, may just have the answer to the Democrats' woes.
Whitewashing the pope
Arianna Huffington
The media's obsessive coverage of the pope's death does not include a discussion of the tragic failures of his reign.
Size matters
Peter Rubin
Mike Salvini is an evangelist for natural penis enlargement, a weird and scientifically unproven way of upsizing the male member. And thousands of men are going to great lengths to follow him.
The Salon Interview: Ian McEwan
Laura Miller
The author of "Saturday" discusses writing after 9/11, the burden of being interesting, and why he's still ambivalent about the Iraq war.
Standing by their man
David Paul Kuhn
Conservatives may worry privately about the scandal-plagued majority leader, but publicly they're denying he did anything wrong and blaming the "liberal media."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers continue to sound off on Pope John Paul II's legacy and the state of the church.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Lavish service and unapologetic thievery: The pilot discovers a new airline in the far south.
I think I saw my stalker on the railway platform
Cary Tennis
He used to follow me around in high school, but I thought he'd disappeared.
Favorite concerts of 2004 from Ida
Salon Staff
Ida's Dan Littleton writes about Prince, Brian Wilson, Joao Gilberto and more.
“You’re supposed to marry the person you love, Mom”
Ayelet Waldman
My 7-year-old son's best friend is a lesbian and he says he wants to be gay. I hope he is.
On the verge of collapse
Euan Ferguson
Voting out Robert Mugabe would help prevent growing hunger, but as repression tightens, Zimbabweans see little hope for regime change.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
NCAA Tournament Day 2: Underdogs hang around, hang around and, finally, a couple of them break through.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A Kazakh "Rebel Without a Cause"; a ruthless mockumentary about a mail-order bride; and the sleeper documentary hit "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill."
“Nothing like this should ever happen”
Duncan Campbell
A year after the train bombings, pain is still etched on the streets of Madrid.
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