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Senator Franken?
David Paul Kuhn
He's good enough, he's smart enough, but doggone it, will people vote for him? To find out, Al Franken is moving his radio show back home to Minnesota to get ready to run against Sen. Norm Coleman.
The other side of the “ex on the shelf” problem
Cary Tennis
My girlfriend is jealous of my relationship with my ex. Do I have to choose between them?
Generation Bomb
Laura Miller
Once again, a clutch of new books on the atomic bomb get the history and intrigue right. But where's the guilt, dread and helplessness of living under the cloud of nuclear annihilation?
Don’t buy it!
Stephanie Zacharek
Mega-buzzed magazines like Lucky, Cargo and the brand-new Domino reduce readers to consumers without brains or a sense of style.
Letters
Salon Staff
"When did we become so enthralled with the neuroses of upper-middle-class, white, stay-at-home mothers?" Readers respond to Noelle Howey's essay about overly anxious parents.
He doesn’t like to watch
Julia Scott
It's TV Turnoff Week, and its mastermind explains why thousands of culture jammers might be disrupting a sports bar near you.
The right to impose Christianity
Michelle Goldberg
The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
Sexual revolutionaries
Michelle Goldberg
"Persepolis" author Marjane Satrapi talks about why Iranians don't think sex is sinful, the hypocrisy of American saber-rattling over Iran, and why George Bush and the mullahs are "the same."
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Salon Staff
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Salon Staff
Celebrate four years of fearless, independent, reader-supported journalism by giving two Salon memberships for the price of one!
Holy warriors
Sidney Blumenthal
Cardinal Ratzinger handed Bush the presidency by tipping the Catholic vote. Can American democracy survive their shared medieval vision?
“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”
Andrew O'Hehir
This movie about America's biggest corporate collapse is part of a new breed of film, more agitprop than documentary.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Casey Stengel was more genius than clown, a new book argues, and his brilliance as the Yankees manager was forged through years of losing in Brooklyn and Boston.
The gay/hipster index
Christopher Dreher
Richard Florida argues that unless America turns its cities into gay-friendly, hip creativity hubs like San Francisco, the best and brightest will opt for foreign climes.
Zen mama
Noelle Howey
Judith Warner is making me wonder: Am I stressed out enough to be a good mother?
“Viva il papa!”
David J. Dent
Amid the cheers in St. Peter's Square, not everyone is wild about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope.
Shel games
Lisa Rogak
The great children's poet and adult entertainer Shel Silverstein did it all -- singing jazz songs, hanging with Lenny Bruce, writing plays, drawing cartoons, and living at the Playboy Mansion.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Salon's new series on Democrats, "The Life of the Party." Plus: Fish eaters' mercury worries.
The girls are all right
Corrie Pikul
A new book says that teen girls aren't the drug-addicted, eating-disordered monsters that the media makes them out to be.
At 32, I finally told my father off
Cary Tennis
I spent years being the family confidant. Now that I've asserted my independence, why are they all so mad at me?
Poisoning Iraq’s wild east
Rory Carroll
Alarm grows over fishermen's use of chemicals and electric shock in one of the world's greatest wetlands.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
When will zany freaks be as outdated as boxed Chablis? What do con men and burlesque dancers have in common? Should Tyra Banks be on anxiety medication?
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