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Making his party proud
Geraldine Sealey
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
After the tanks
Phillip Robertson
The young Al-Mahdi Army soldiers said nothing as we drove past. The U.S. Army had just blasted their cemetery stronghold with Apaches, and they didn't care about anything.
Ode to Billy Joe
Brad Reagan
Billy Joe Shaver lost his wife and his mom the same year his beloved son died of an overdose. He never made any money, and he lives in obscurity in Waco, Texas. But the man Willie Nelson says "may be the best songwriter alive today" is still keeping on.
I’m an insecure saboteur
Cary Tennis
I have a habit of destroying all of my relationships after they're about a year old.
One minute from abnormal
James C. Moore
A Texas reporter explores Karen Hughes' cultlike devotion to George W. Bush.
American idle
Lee Soult
I had nothing better to do than watch the taping of Simon Cowell's amateur-hour schlockfest. Here's my shocking story.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Wednesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The mighty windbags
David Brock
Thirty years ago, conservatives embarked on a plan to subvert journalism and skew America to the right. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
“Sometimes they pretended to kill me”
Phillip Robertson
An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
Rumsfeld’s big day
Geraldine Sealey
The Fix
Salon Staff
Joe Wilson names names, Ben Affleck bonds with Ted Kennedy, and The Donald gets his own radio show.
Brave new jobs
Claudia O'Keefe
My menial job at a world-famous Washington resort was a crash course in today's screw-the-worker zeitgeist -- and the charming, monied guests who thrust bloody bandages into my hands and made my dignified old co-worker perform like a seal.
Wednesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
To bleach his own
David Amsden
The media-fed obsession with the perfect smile has helped create an army of chalky, Tic Tac-like teeth so blindingly white they appear to be ... blue.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Lakers? Pacers? What are you smoking? The readers write on the playoffs, Barry Bonds and the Battle of Ontario.
The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson
Laura Miller
The author of "Cryptonomicon" and the "Baroque Cycle" talks about the brighter side of Puritanism, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and the literary world's grudge against science fiction.
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re married. Yawn.
Meredith Maran
While my friends lined up in the rain to get married in San Francisco, I wondered: If this is what we've been fighting for, why do I feel so ambivalent?
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Lives of the not so rich and famous: What do pilots do when they're not in the air?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
"Bachelor" fumbles first big play, and Nick and Jessica revive variety kitsch -- but who asked them to? Plus: "The Sopranos" just keeps getting darker.
Missing in action
Tim Grieve
As the war in Iraq spins out of control, why isn't John Kerry launching a frontal assault on Bush's failed policies?
Meeting my daughter
Laura Stevens
In my fantasies, I'd embrace the Romanian toddler I was about to adopt and we would gaze lovingly into each other's eyes. But I didn't love her when we met. In fact, I didn't even like her.
Departure of a native son
Amy Kroin
Longtime activist Randall Robinson tells his story of the U.S. "coup" against Haiti's Aristide, calls Colin Powell the most dangerous black man alive, and explains why he quit the U.S. for St. Kitts.
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