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The bailout blues
Salon Staff
Members of Salon's Table Talk community give their take on the week's Wall Street madness.
Paying for sterilization
Kate Harding
Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo wants to offer poor women $1,000 to have their tubes tied.
Don’t leave it to Leavitt
Lynn Harris
Tell HHS -- by tomorrow -- that the health of millions of women should be on its "conscience."
Mean girl
David Talbot
Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
An open letter to independent and undecided voters
Gary Kamiya
You're sick of politics as usual and just want results. Should you pick Obama or McCain?
Whither the wedge issues
Thomas Schaller
If the National Rifle Association fires a gun in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Roe plaintiff speaks out for choice
Kate Harding
Although "Jane Roe" is now an anti-choice activist, another plaintiff in the case has no regrets.
First dude
Thomas Schaller
The Washington Posts leads its front page with a story on Sarah Palin's hubby.
The battle for votes in Pennsylvania’s Clinton country
Walter Shapiro
This year, the economy trumps social issues in blue-collar Scranton. That should mean advantage, Democrat. But what does it really mean when local voters say they don't "know" Obama?
Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare
Rahul K. Parikh
A pediatrician traces the rise of the anti-vaccine movement that falsely linked thimerosal with autism and turned parents away from the most lifesaving medicine in history.
What small-town America thinks of Sarah Palin
Dan Hoyle
From Minnesota to Mount Rushmore, the coffee shops and bars are buzzing with talk of whether the moose-hunting mom is fit to be vice president.
Wayne Wang isn’t missing
Andrew O'Hehir
Peripatetic Asian-American indie-film hero is back from J.Lo exile with a double bill of intriguing new low-budget films -- and YouTube distribution. (A podcast and interview.)
Google abandons antiabortion-ad policy after U.K. legal battle
Cyrus Farivar
The company now allows such ads globally.
In rare endorsement, NOW backs Obama-Biden
Lynn Harris
And, natch, the organization is accused of not supporting women. Well, woman.
Do we need population control?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Notorious doomsayer Paul Ehrlich and other population experts debate the consequences of a crowded world, and how a McCain administration could set back decades of progress.
Amy Poehler, how will we quit you?
Rebecca Traister
The hilarious feminist comedian to exit "Saturday Night Live." Broadsheet to mourn.
Antiabortion 527 group attacks Obama
Alex Koppelman
The group's new ad criticizes Barack Obama for opposing a bill to protect babies who survive abortions, but the truth is not so simple.
Did you just call me a zygote?
Catherine Price
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether the state's Constitution should define fertilized eggs as people.
The pastor who clashed with Palin
David Talbot
Baptist minister Howard Bess, who wrote a book Palin wanted banned and who fought her on abortion and gay rights, says the country should fear her election.
Vice squad
Salon Staff
Why are you qualified to be second in command? Members of Salon's Table Talk community give their reasons, this week.
McCain skewered on “The View”
Rebecca Traister
Barbara Walters and co-hosts grill the presidential nominee with hard-hitting questions the press has been too squeamish to ask.
Palin’s choice = women’s choice?
Tracy Clark-Flory
A leading gynecologist worries that Palin provides a "detrimental and confusing" example.
“I fear for my country”
David Talbot
Former Gov. Tony Knowles and other Alaska Democrats warn not to underestimate Sarah Palin's political skills -- or how unsuited she is for the vice presidency.
Questions for Sarah Palin
Joan Walsh
Readers want to ask about oil production, abortion, earmarks, why she sneers at community organizers, and more. Plus: Palin to Gibson: War with Russia "may be necessary."
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