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The fall of the house of Nixon
Sidney Blumenthal
The conservative Republican Party that Richard Nixon created in the '60s is now coming apart at the seams under George W. Bush. Could that spell the end of his presidency?
Too tightknit to be accountable
Janine R. Wedel
The outsourcing of crucial government functions to private individuals and companies is an alarming trend.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
American athletes really do need to learn how to behave at the Olympics: The readers write.
New election, same old Keyes
Stephen W. Stromberg
Lost at the movies
Charles Taylor
An unsettled age has given birth to a rootless cinema -- "Lost in Translation," "Before Sunrise" and the new "Code 46" among its films -- that shows confused characters moving through a comfortless world.
Just how gay is “Death in Venice”?
Andrew O'Hehir
A homoerotic "master text" or a cryptic parable of art, arrogance and self-deception? A fresh translation helps pry Thomas Mann's classic from too-literal interpretation.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Greg Maddux is a 300-game winner and a wonderful role model. Our Olympians are being asked to act more like him. Too bad.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Palestinian boys craft homemade hand grenades in HBO's "Death in Gaza," and hapless victims of Fox's latest trashy joy ride meet their new mommies. Plus: Who's weirder, the Amish or the Angelenos?
Blogging grows up
Farhad Manjoo
Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious.
Contract to torture
Osha Gray Davidson
A rare look at the entire Abu Ghraib report reveals that inexperienced, under-supervised private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse.
Whose is bigger?
Alessandro Camon
Bush and the GOP are trying to paint Kerry as a Euro-wimp and girlie man. But the Dems have a chance to show America that it's Bush who's the real 97-lb. weakling.
Ruff! Ruff!
Heather Havrilesky
Mark Ruffalo's raw vulnerability has made him a breakout star -- and helped him become the thinking woman's sex symbol.
Finding redemption
Salon Staff
What Table Talkers are saying this week about terror alerts, education, faith and forgiveness.
Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
What's hot in indie publishing, from Greg Palast's anti-Dubya card deck to a coffee-table book of antiwar art and a photographic study of NYC's back-in-the-day graffiti writers. Plus: The '80s punk hero who's been forgotten but shouldn't be.
MO on the gay marriage debate
Stephen W. Stromberg
God wars
Laura Miller
Is the upsurge of faith in America and the West a glorious spiritual reawakening, or a barbaric superstition that must be stamped out? Two opposing new books turn religion into a heavyweight brawl.
Pregnancy porn
Rebecca Traister
Wacky names! Baby "bumps"! The "most anticipated baby in the world"! Why do we salivate over spawning celebrities?
No retreat, no surrender
Tim Grieve, Geraldine Sealey
Shedding caution, John Kerry takes the fight to George W. Bush -- and gives the speech of his life.
Sen. Moynihan’s prophetic words
Maura Moynihan
Just days before he died, my father told me, "The war will last two weeks. It's the 10-year occupation you have to worry about."
Class politics, JibJab-style
Solon Simmons
Populist rhetoric used to be the left's stock in trade. But as the whacked-out animation "This Land" proves, somewhere along the way rich vs. poor was replaced by smarts vs. substance.
Wired awake
Ian Sample
Soldiers in the field go for days without rest. Now, an investigation has found the British Ministry of Defense has been buying a new stimulant in bulk.
The new blogocracy
danah boyd
The mainstream media is doing its best to belittle Democratic Convention bloggers, but the arrival of a host of online scribblers is reinvigorating, and challenging, old-school journalism.
For Kerry’s theme song, our money’s on Bruce
Eric Boehlert
Was I too easy?
Cary Tennis
He felt my breasts and then didn't call -- did I let him go too far too soon?
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