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Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Time to get political: The pilot recalls his encounters with Brown, Kennedy, Jackson, Dukakis and Gore. Extra credit for guessing the link.
In the polls
Jeff Horwitz
Battleground: New Mexico
James Verini
Going door to door in the Land of Enchantment, where Hispanic voters could tip the election either way.
The Bushies wrecked my party!
Sarah Rogers
A mean guy named Dick ordered my guests around, some halfwit named George broke everything, and this Karl creep really befouled the air in my bathroom.
Team Bush declares war on the New York Times
Eric Boehlert
The GOP attack on a Times Magazine story is the latest attempt to rally the conservative base by "whacking a newspaper with 'New York' in its name," says executive editor Bill Keller.
“Homosexuals are hellbound!”
Michelle Goldberg
Churches in Ohio are rallying their massive flocks behind the most strident anti-gay marriage amendment in the nation -- and the Republican National Committee is in heaven.
Hey barkeep — gimme a beer and an AIDS test!
Karin Halperin
New HIV tests give results in 20 minutes, and are attracting people who avoided being tested before. But is a Bourbon Street dive the best place to find out you're positive?
Day 4 of the Mary Cheney hostage crisis
Joan Walsh
“Chronicles, Volume 1”
Charles Taylor
In his surprisingly straightforward memoir, Bob Dylan takes us through his explosive early years, the curse of being "the conscience of his generation" and, more recently, his artistic redemption.
Down, dirty and dull
Tim Grieve
Dick Cheney and John Edwards came out swinging, but the only people they knocked out were in the audience.
My first time with Dylan
Compiled by Dana Cook
Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Cher, Allen Ginsberg, Jimmy Buffett, Andy Warhol and others on their initial meetings with the folk legend.
Ready for his close-up
Tim Grieve
Will youth and beauty triumph over old age and treachery? John Edwards faces off against Dick Cheney.
Win, place or die
Meredith Maran
Crime novelist, horse racing junkie and former performance poet Maggie Estep talks about the Beats, touring with Lollapalooza and writing dirty fiction.
Everything you were afraid to ask about “The Wire”
Dan Kois
Need a primer for quite possibly the best show on television?
Last Female Muslim Comic Standing
Priya Jain
Controversial stand-up comedian Shazia Mirza isnt afraid to joke about 9/11, sexist Muslim men, or the fact that she's a 28-year-old virgin. But not everyone is laughing.
Liza’s horrible so-called life
Cintra Wilson
Mean boys. Badass girls. Your worst first-day-of-high-school nightmare, to the millionth power ... and in Marin County, Calif.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
A ballplayer throws a chair into the stands, breaking a woman's nose, and outraged typists agree: Must be the fans' fault. Plus: Barry Bonds for MVP Stat of the Day.
Picasso’s buried treasure
Barbara Tannenbaum
Using X-rays and Silicon Valley technology, conservators have discovered a previously unknown painting behind the artist's "Rue de Montmartre."
U.S. troops face new torture claims
Richard Norton-Taylor
Iraqi detainees in the northern city of Mosul allege soldiers beat and stripped them, and forced them to listen to loud Western music.
What al-Qaida did to us
Salon Staff
Nine people who have experienced terrorist attacks around the world, from Bali to Yemen, share their thoughts on the third anniversary of Sept. 11.
Stung!
Eric Boehlert
A swarm of new media stories on young George W. Bush's dereliction of duty pops his heroic-leadership bubble.
The Republic of Letters confronts the crisis of the republic
Robert McCrum
Nine American novelists discuss their hopes and fears for the nation's next chapter.
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
When Harry Potter met Jane Austen
Laura Miller
Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" combines the dark, wild spirit of English fantasy with the grand wit and high style of the 19th century social novel. It's a grand performance -- and the most sparkling literary debut of the year.
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