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The military industrial porn complex
John Feffer
Popular science magazines used to be aimed at the geeky wannabe inventor. Today, it's all about the glamour of war.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
"Wonderfalls" flirts with cancellation, just like "My So-Called Life" -- which returns in reruns -- and PBS airs a must-see documentary about immigrants. But first ... I think we need to have a talk.
The Catholic factor
Andrew Greeley
Will John Kerry's fellow Catholics turn out for him the way they did for the last JFK?
Burning down his master’s house
Eric Boehlert
Former New York Times editor Howell Raines uses the Atlantic Monthly to savage his old newsroom for lethargy, sloppiness and "a culture of complaint."
Letters
Salon Staff
Writers, editors, publishers and, yes, even readers respond to "The Confessions of a Semi-successful Author."
Breast intentions
Larry Smith
Friends are baby booming. Nursing moms are suddenly everywhere. Why is the most natural thing in the world so bizarre?
The secret history of secrecy
John D. Podesta, Judd C. Legum
The closing of the American government.
You can save the endangered midlist author
Jane Austen Doe
Or you can turn the page. Here are five concrete steps you can take to help.
The confessions of a semi-successful author
Jane Austen Doe
I've published several books, won adoring reviews, and even sold a few copies. But I've made almost no money and had my heart broken. Here's everything you don't want to know about how publishing really works.
Watch your mouth
Eric Boehlert
In its Thursday ruling against Bono and Howard Stern, the FCC announced that a new day of language policing has dawned.
The Cruella syndrome
Rebecca Traister
She's too rich! She's a boss from hell! She had a brow lift! Katie Couric, NBC's perky princess, is suddenly getting the media's queen-of-mean treatment. What's our problem with powerful women?
Eminem vs. Robert Frost
Scott Thill
Is hip-hop saving poetry -- or trashing it? Beneath the feel-good rhetoric of "Def Poetry Jam" and the "spoken-word revolution" is a battle over the future of literature's oldest form.
One cable company to rule them all
Farhad Manjoo
Comcast's bid to buy Disney raises a specter even scarier than the witch in Snow White: A Mickey Mouse Internet.
“A stand against pompous gasbags”
John Gorenfeld
After firing humorist Sandra Tsing Loh for letting the F-word slip onto the airwaves, a public radio station offered her job back. But Loh said no, and tells Salon why.
Rebirth of a nation
Norman Birnbaum
In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings, the election in Spain changed the European dynamic in the war on terror.
Letters
Salon Staff
Is the Jamaican music biz just so much bloodsucking globalization? And does Salon need to "lighten up" and learn to love "lowbrow" fare like "Straight Plan for the Gay Man"? Readers have their say.
Jamaica’s new music revolution
Baz Dreisinger
That beat you can't get out of your head is reggae -- think Sean Paul, not Marley -- and it's inspiring everyone from Missy to Beyonce to No Doubt. Inside the Kingston studio with one of the riddim nation's masterminds.
Say one thing, do another, cont.
Geraldine Sealey
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Some hockey fans draw a line between "violence" and "fighting." They're fooling themselves. Plus: ESPN does something exquisitely right.
Bush waves the bloody shirt
Sidney Blumenthal
Max Cleland tells Salon: It's "the band of brothers against the slime machine."
Gameboys
Tom Bissell, Jeff Alexander
Back by popular demand, our video game junkies review "Mafia" and breathe heavily over the "Bra & Panties" match in the new "Smackdown."
The great escape
Craig Unger
Immediately after 9/11, dozens of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family fled the U.S. in a secret airlift authorized by the Bush White House. One passenger was an alleged al-Qaida go-between, who may have known about the terror attacks in advance. Our first excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud."
Damaged goods
Cary Tennis
I got engaged, then found out she is bipolar. How can I break it off with the least amount of hurt for both of us?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
As the latest victim of a cheap shot begins his long recovery, stand by for some bogus anti-violence posturing from the NHL.
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