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Living large
Lynn Harris
Clothing company Torrid makes cool clothes for overweight teens. Its bodacious bras and extra-large camisoles help salvage fat kids' self-esteem. But do they also encourage obesity?
Adventures in the skin trade
Priya Jain
Whether you love porn or think it's an abomination, "The Other Hollywood" will shake up everything you think you know about the sex film industry.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Fugliness transcends ugliness. Experiencing it is physical, emotional, spiritual and ontological devastation." Salon readers speak out about the pleasures and the provenance of the word "fugly."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers debate Judith Warner's book "Perfect Madness" and take issue with her characterization of fathers. Also: Attachment parents defend their philosophy.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Yow! Avalanche of reality TV, heading this way! A new batch of fame-seeking mutants, strutting hotties and whining losers. Plus: Simon, please keep your sexual fantasies to yourself.
Dirty Harry or p.c. wimp?
Christopher Orr
Left-wing critics attacked Clint Eastwood's early work as violently fascistic. Now conservatives blast him as a p.c. apologist and moral relativist. They're both wrong.
Confessions of a Hollywood sellout
Lisa Lutz
There is no self-help group out there for a screenwriter who wasted a decade of her life rewriting a straight-to-video mob farce.
The truth about Arnold
Peter Byrne
The movie star poses as a corruption-fighting moderate. But since taking office, he's pursued a blatantly right-wing agenda while raking in big bucks from special interests -- and ignoring his own financial conflicts.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Feldman says Jackson showed him genitalia pix. More Cosby accusers emerge. Plus: IKEA riot!
The morning after
Simon Tisdall
Rice's charm offensive may have made European officials feel appreciated again, but many do not see anything new in the Bush agenda she presented.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Jose Canseco is an attention whore, but that doesn't have to mean his steroid accusations are all lies. Plus: The Go Daddy Girl and the rest of the Super Bowl ad crop.
The mystery of a feminist icon
Priya Jain
Nancy Drew taught me everything I needed to know about being a tough, independent woman. Too bad today's girls don't have the same role model.
“If he liked you, America liked you”
Dana Cook
How his famous guests and peers -- some in awe, some in anger -- remembered Johnny Carson, including Cavett, Warhol, Cher, Gabor, Rivers, Reynolds and Leno.
“Are We There Yet?”
Stephanie Zacharek
Ice Cube and Nia Long do their best to rev up this family comedy, but it never quite takes off, let alone arrives.
The sexual life of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew O'Hehir
After reading C.A. Tripp's highly anticipated study of Abe's alleged homosexuality, we still don't know if he was gay. Does it matter?
The facilitator
Alan Berlow
When Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on the cases of Texas death row inmates up for clemency, his memos were so shabby they seemed intended solely to make it easy for Bush to send prisoners to their deaths.
When technology became cool again
Andrew Leonard, Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
Google, Firefox and digital cameras gave us reason to cheer in 2004. Then again, outsourcing, global warming and the politics of stem cells proved there is a dark side.
The year in games
Wagner James Au
Developers, critics, gamers and analysts weigh in: What they loved, what they learned, what they worried about.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Imus' nanny troubles, Rather talks to ghosts, "Jeopardy!" champ's writing a book, and Star Jones' honeymoon videos!
Ben Franklin lives!
Josh Kornbluth
An excerpt from comedian Josh Kornbluth's monologue on Ben Franklin, wherein he brings the Founding Father into the present.
Sylvia and Ruth
Karen Maroda
Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse was therapist for the most famous, and famously troubled, poet of our time. Shortly before her own death, she agreed to speak about her treatment of Sylvia Plath, and the regrets that still haunted her decades after Plath's suicide.
A nation of little princesses
Christopher Healy
The wild success of the Disney Princess brand means that my daughter is obsessed with all things pink and sparkly. What's an enlightened father to do?
“Alexander”
Stephanie Zacharek
A snake-happy Angelina Jolie for a mother, a one-eyed, misogynistic father, Jared Leto in heavy eyeliner -- Oliver Stone flexes his brain to unriddle the great, bisexual conquerer.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
All hail Adventure Week! Featuring hair-raising
encounters with crappy, overpriced appliances, whiny 30-something women, devil-may-care mountain climbers, and squabbling married couples!
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