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I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
HBO's fourth season of "The Wire" gets inside the weary reality of Baltimore's neglected schools, while CBS's "Jericho" brings us the sweet nectar of apocalypse, at long last!
Our family’s recovery
Lori Leibovich
When the grandmother the girls called "the human Barbie doll" died in the World Trade Center, they were buried in grief. But Brianna and Shannon, and their parents, Jay and Louise, refuse to let the past rule them.
A rebirth for New Orleans
Mark Warner
The Big Easy still faces dire challenges. But if we have the national will, we can find new solutions for America's age-old problems of poverty and racial inequity.
Dancing on land mines
Tamim Ansary
After 9/11, I told America it couldn't bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age -- it was already there. Since then, the story of my country has been one step up, two steps back.
“Idlewild”
Stephanie Zacharek
Gangsters, showgirls, wowser production numbers -- OutKast's messy, ambitious and extraordinary movie musical has it all ... and soul to spare.
The joys of life without God
Kevin Berger
Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
“24”: Time’s up
Laura Miller
The dismal, humorless world of Jack Bauer has us rooting for the terrorists.
Speedo freaks
Oliver Broudy
Since I was a kid I've shunned men's bikini briefs. But now I'm one of the guys with a shiny marble bag -- strutting poolside, liberated.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Paris Hilton attacked by kinkajou. Dobson offers Gibson support. Plus: "Liquids on a Plane," the movie?
Twilight of Lebanon’s liberals
Kate Seelye
Secular Arabs like Druze leader Walid Jumblatt worry that the Israeli invasion will push Lebanon into the arms of the fanatics.
Abortion under siege in Mississippi
Michelle Goldberg
Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state's last abortion clinic.
From dancing to grieving
Trenton Straube
Andrew Holleran discusses the gay generation gap, coming out in a library and whether we should mourn like Jackie O or Mary Todd Lincoln.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
TV critics gather in Pasadena to eat Jimmy Kimmel's half-raw burgers and ask Chris Rock dumb white-people questions. Plus: The fur and feathers are already flying on "Project Runway."
Wal-Mart goes green
Amanda Griscom Little
The mega-chain is undergoing an extreme enviro makeover. Even Al Gore is on board. But will Wal-Mart keep its promises?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Eminem in bathroom fracas? Ann Coulter jokes about Times anthrax scare. Plus: The first photo of Holmes-Cruise baby carriage.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The apocalypse is drawing closer! Soothe those rattled nerves by peeking in on the human lab rats of "Big Brother All-Stars" and the frustrated couples of "Sexual Healing."
Destination: Armenia
Meline Toumani
Discover the former Soviet Union's smallest republic through its fantastic national epic, an exceptional memoir and a love letter from a great Russian poet.
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.
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