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Faith in federal funding
Page Rockwell
The House moves to fund faith-based groups that hire and fire based on religious discrimination.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Let's stop hand-wringing over these self-obsessed, destructive, navel-gazing suburban punks ..." Salon readers sound off on Elliott Currie's book about the crisis of middle-class adolescence.
A watershed year for Sinn Fein
Henry McDonald
The world has turned a blind eye to Irish Republican Army violence as long as it stayed within Ireland. Now the game is up.
“Me” culture
James Westcott
We are what we buy at the mall, see at the multiplex, and hear on our iPods. And that's a good thing. Author Thomas De Zengotita discusses our new "Mediated" life.
The nightmare in Iraq
Andrew O'Hehir
"Gunner Palace" takes the viewer as close to the actual experience of the Iraq war as anyone will ever want to get.
Rumors of Martha’s redemption are greatly exaggerated
Rebecca Traister
America wants her saga to have a sweet and noble conclusion. It shouldn't hold its violet-scented breath.
Inside “Gunner Palace”
Mark Follman
Soldiers in the new documentary, and Iraq war veterans, discuss how filmmaker Michael Tucker captures the real terror and craziness of their lives and service in Iraq.
Three cheers for America’s tastemaker
Farhad Manjoo
By bringing beauty and style to Middle America, Martha Stewart has changed the way we live for the better.
Diamond heart
Anne Lamott
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, "Plan B," Anne Lamott writes about the difficulty and beauty of mothering a teenager.
“We are people too”
Paul Harris
Homosexual activists in Spokane plan a gay business district, hoping it will inspire other conservative cities in America's heartland.
Recycled rhetoric
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush's huge gamble on dismantling the cornerstone of the New Deal will fail. And if the Democrats remain disciplined, his defeat will be profound.
Letters
Salon Staff
Acadians and Louisianians say, We have not forgotten! Plus: Readers on both sides of the border complain about our use of "America," and Andrew O'Hehir responds.
Tearing down the press
Eric Boehlert
The Bush administration has been at war with the media from Day One. Is its real goal to undermine the press itself -- and thereby eliminate inconvenient truths?
Zombies, smack addicts and Starbucks
Brian Libby
Director Danny Boyle explains the real monsters lurking in his movies, from "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later" to his latest, "Millions."
Freezer Culture
Christopher Kemp
You don't need religion
for life after death --
just $35,000 and a taste
for liquid nitrogen.
America’s forgotten atrocity
Andrew O'Hehir
A unique hybrid people, the Acadians offered a wiser, kinder vision of settling the continent. Instead, they became the victims of North America's first ethnic cleansing campaign.
The whatever culture
Corrie Pikul
A new book says uncaring, punitive adults -- parents and professionals alike -- are responsible for an epidemic of checked-out, drug-taking middle-class teens.
Letters
Salon Staff
A source in a Salon story accuses the author of fanning flames of panic about the sexual practices of gay men.
Oscar on life support
Cintra Wilson
Welcome to wartime Academy Awards: Cheap, tense and cobbled together from graphics rations donated by the E! Channel. Not even Chris Rock or Beyonc
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.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Why have conservatives been silent about new evidence that the Bush administration sanctioned torture? Victor Davis Hanson and Jonah Goldberg tell us.
From “Red Harvest” to “Deadwood”
Allen Barra
How Dashiell Hammett's first and most important novel eluded film adaptation and still managed to find its way onto the big -- and small -- screen.
Bush’s bait and switch
Farhad Manjoo
Liberal author Thomas Frank and conservative opinion maker Richard Viguerie agree that Bush roped in voters with moral issues, only to sell them out with his Social Security plan.
“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”
Stephanie Zacharek
Will Tyler Perry's religion-infused comedy spawn a completely new genre: Churchotainment?
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