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“Masculine Feminine”
Stephanie Zacharek
This rereleased 1966 Godard film about young people consumed with love, sex, politics and pop culture speaks to the teenager in all of us.
Thank God they’re finally getting hitched!
Catherine Bennett
And Camilla is the perfect wife for Charles, with great qualifications for the job as top female royal after the queen.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Secret memo reveals NBC's Brian Williams is GOP's new "go-to anchor." Tony Blankley's plan to make L.A. liberals spew their lattes. Plus: Still brooding over Janet Jackson's boob, Brent Bozell now discovers shocking depravity of MTV!
The biggest star you’ve never seen
Charles Taylor
Aishwarya Rai is among the planet's biggest box-office draws. So why doesn't Hollywood know what to do with her?
Letters
Salon Staff
"I am happy I never spawned." Readers sound off on vasectomies and the reproductive rights of men.
Virginia is for lovers, but not underpants
Suzanne Goldenberg
In a crusade against the "coarsening" of culture, the state's House of Delegates passes a bill that would levy a $50 fine for exposing one's undergarments in an offensive manner.
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.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Ann Marlowe is a fine example of the problems we face." Readers inveigh against "The Ideas That Conquered the World." Plus: The editor of "The Intimate Life of Abraham Lincoln" responds to Andrew O'Hehir's review.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Escandalo! Hot lesbian teens on "The O.C."! Kelly and Ashlee lip-sync pop and pop pills on MTV! Plus: Fonzie thrills and monkey meat ills!
Letters
Salon Staff
Either you're with the bunny, or you're with us: Readers weigh in on PBS, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and the "Postcards From Buster" crisis.
Clump of cells or “microscopic American”?
Lynn Harris
The U.S. government says embryos aren't "donated" to infertile couples -- they're "adopted." How language has become a front line in the abortion wars.
The ideas that conquered the world
Ann Marlowe
"The Neocon Reader" is must reading for liberal losers who want to get their mojo back.
Fair and buxom
Tim Grieve
Paralyzed Broadcasting System
Eric Boehlert
When Bush's education secretary objected to a lesbian couple in a children's cartoon, PBS instantly caved in. Is the network becoming the White House's lap dog?
Letters
Salon Staff
Yes, the neighbors were mean, but the church still deserves blame. Readers respond to Laura Miller's "Who Burned the Witches?"
Letters
Salon Staff
Can't we all just get along? Not bloody likely, say readers responding to the latest round of Mac-Windows wars.
It’s truly Groundhog Day
Tim Grieve
The most liberal president of the 20th century
Charles Taylor
Nick Kotz's new book about the civil right years argues convincingly that the true hero of the American left is LBJ.
Who burned the witches?
Laura Miller
For years, feminist scholars have argued that witch hunts were inspired by a reactionary, misogynistic church. But new scholarship, like Lyndal Roper's "Witch Craze," reveals that the real villains were the neighbors.
A war’s terrible legacy
Rory Carroll
Sexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in the past six years.
Letters
Salon Staff
"It's always decent to say 'penis.'" "Give Scorsese the benefit of the doubt." Salon readers weigh in on TV decency and movie sequels.
Lost heroine
Jacqueline M. Koch
An activist who drowned in her prison cell during last month's tsunami represented Aceh's struggle for independence.
Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
The new year in indie publishing: Howard Zinn gives us the answer to No Child Left Behind. Plus: Andy Singer's attitudinal comic brings back Camus and Sartre, and our author says goodbye to Will Eisner and Joe Strummer.
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