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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.
The sweetest dream
Christine Smallwood
A disinherited grandchild of the man who created Sweet'N Low dissects his screwy family -- and the history of fake sugar -- in a winning new book.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
"Bettie Page" director Mary Harron talks about why Bettie's topless shots were more joyous than erotic. Plus: Four movies kinda, sorta about sex.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Boxing shoots itself in the head again. Hey, that's corpse abuse! Plus: Wisconsin wins the Frozen Four.
“Gray Horses”
Douglas Wolk
A French exchange student experiences a sensory wonderland in this new graphic novel that's perfect for you or your kids.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Barry Bonds' television "reality": Just a nice guy everybody hates for some reason. Plus: Maryland wins the Tournament.
Uncertainty and horror in Baghdad
Riverbend
Things are so bad here now, the TV warns us not to trust the police. And more and more people, like my cousin, must pay terrible visits to the morgue.
Not just another dead black man
Meredith Maran
The Keith Stephens I knew was a joyful, charismatic kid working hard to become a responsible adult. Then he was murdered. He can't become just another statistic.
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