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“I’m a voting adult and it’s my job to fix it”
Joy Lanzendorfer
DIY goddess Ani DiFranco on political responsibility in the Bush era, the "lying, whoring media," life in New Orleans and her bottomless pit of self-loathing.
Real women, agonizing choices
Stephanie Booth
Lost amid the political and moral posturing over late-term abortions are the actual women who make the painful decision to undergo the procedure.
For poorer and for poorer
Suzy Hansen
For young couples trying to start a new life together, the dismal economy means more fighting, postponed weddings -- and less sex.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Don't Ask -- He Won't Tell," by Jake Tapper, and "Vigilante Injustice," by Max Blumenthal.
Democrats: Profiles in spinelessness
Arianna Huffington
It's time for the Democrats to give up their play-it-safe politics and risk offending a radical minority.
“Getting Mother’s Body” by Suzan-Lori Parks
Amy Reiter
When 16-year-old Billy Beede gets word that her mother's grave is about to be plowed over, she takes off to rescue the corpse -- and the jewels rumored to be buried with it.
The hunger artist
Laura Miller
Caroline Knapp's final book is both the smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the tortuous pathways of female desire.
Who’s afraid of Teresa Heinz?
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
The wife of presidential hopeful John Kerry is a rare political figure -- refreshingly honest and undeniably smart. So why are her own handlers hell-bent on shutting her up?
“I love my son, and I hate him”
Salon Staff
To breed or not to breed: A struggling mother and three other readers tell their stories.
Fighting Bush’s U.N. health cuts — a dollar bill at a time
Michelle Goldberg
When right-wing zealots got $34 million cut from global family-planning funds, two women vowed to raise money from their friends to replace it. A million dollars later, they're just getting started.
The birds and the bees for post-Puritans
Amy Benfer
A sensible, open-minded book for parents who want their kids to have a healthy attitude toward sex -- but not have any.
Faster! Stronger! Less human!
Katharine Mieszkowski
In "Enough," Bill McKibben argues that genetic engineering will deprive our children of their freedom to choose who and what they are.
“Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough”
Ralph Brave
Bill McKibben says that the brave new genetic world may give us better teeth and brains -- but it'll steal our souls.
GOP defends Ayatollah Santorum
Joan Walsh
If the president truly believes the Pennsylvania zealot is "an inclusive man," we're all in trouble.
Pro-choice groups agonize over fetal murder law
Mary Papenfuss
When a NOW leader said charging Scott Peterson for the murder of his unborn son threatened abortion rights, even some feminists were horrified. But that's been pro-choice orthodoxy on fetal-rights laws -- until now.
Letters
Salon Staff
What about workplace discrimination against atheists? Readers respond to Christopher S. Stewart's "Office Politics and God."
Idiocy of the week
Andrew Sullivan
A star Republican senator's remarks compare consensual gay sex to polygamy and incest -- and it's even worse than it sounds. How will his party respond?
The dangers of democracy
Michelle Goldberg
This season's intellectual pinup, Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Future of Freedom," explains why the romantic myth of freedom could harm Iraq -- and why power elites aren't so bad.
Office politics and God
Christopher S. Stewart
Muslims, Jews, Pentecostal Baptists -- religious discrimination in the workplace is an equal-opportunity troublemaker.
Onward Christian soldiers
Max Blumenthal
Conservative fundamentalists with close ties to President Bush are planning a new missionary push in Iraq -- and they might already be converting U.S. troops to their cause.
War? What war?
Jake Tapper
Dean, McAuliffe and the DNC wine and dine the party faithful in New York, pretending affirmative action, abortion and ethanol are really what's on their minds.
“Terror and Liberalism” by Paul Berman
Ellen Willis
An important liberal thinker argues that Islamic fundamentalism is the new face of fascism. But his faith in the Bush administration as a force for freedom is naive.
“What will this nation be in years to come?”
Andrew O'Hehir
A historian foresees a United States that crushes opposition around the world and tolerates little dissent at home.
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