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“A deficit of decency”
Salon Staff
Incensed over the Super Bowl halftime show, Sen. Zell Miller asks, "Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap crap?"
Slave rebellion!
Rebecca Traister
As Martha Stewart and Bonnie Fuller squirm, it's payback time for downtrodden assistants everywhere.
Dean strikes back
Geraldine Sealey
Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
Our new monthly roundup of indie publishing: Junko Mizuno's deranged manga, Disney's war against the underground, Flann O'Brien on life during wartime, lefty theorist Mike Davis' children's book (set in Greenland), and William Upski Wimsatt bombs the 2004 election.
Made in the U.S. of A.?
Linda Baker
It's not the most obvious way to run a successful textile company in Los Angeles: Pay the workers a living wage and give consumers absolutely no choice.
Politics by other means
Scott Rosenberg
The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.
Building a better Bush
Paul Waldman
How an Andover-Yale preppy, scion of one of our nation's most powerful families, was reinvented as a straight-shootin' Texan with "regular guy" values. An excerpt from "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You."
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Dennis Miller's monkey business. Plus: Disposable drug lords, 'shroomless wonks, and "The Bachelorette" hits a sour note.
Hey yah! Anybody out there?
Neal Pollack
A guest culture blogger tackles the Grammys, and all the night's big questions: Who likes that Justin Timberfake? Where's Jan Jax? And how can he land a full-time gig?
The reporter they left behind
Mariane Pearl
Two years after my husband, Danny Pearl, was kidnapped and murdered, his employers at the Wall Street Journal seem all too willing to forget.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Your article was a shallow paean to fame, wealth and celebrity." Readers weigh in on the colorful Heinz-Kerry family.
“Osama”
Stephanie Zacharek
The first feature film made in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban -- about a young girl who dresses as a boy to survive -- rings devastatingly true.
“The Dreamers”
Charles Taylor
Bernardo Bertolucci's uncut NC-17 film may be the most explicit film ever released by an American studio, but there's much more to it than just hot sex
The Fix
Salon Staff
"ER" loses a breast, Michael and Janet miss an opening, and Paris and her monkey miss a flight. Plus: Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore explore Bush alternatives in NYC.
Tempest at the Times
Christopher Dreher
The literary world is abuzz: Does New York Times editor Bill Keller want to take his influential book review section down-market?
Letters
Salon Staff
Pay off your student loans before you buy a Mercedes, loser! Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "From Programming to Pizza Delivery."
Letters
Salon Staff
"These policies are a travesty." Readers respond to Whitney Joiner's
article about zero tolerance.
Tit for tat
Charles Taylor
How Justin Timberlake accomplished what the president hasn't been able to: Bring us closer to our fundamentalist brothers.
Why won’t this man blink?
Anna Holmes
Rapid blinking suggests nervousness or deceitfulness. So what does it mean when someone -- like Gen. Wesley Clark -- rarely bats an eye?
Harpooning Hollywood
David Bowman
Peter Biskind talks about Harvey Weinstein, Robert Redford, his new book, "Down and Dirty Pictures," and the wild stories he can't tell about '70s Hollywood.
Howard Dean strikes back
Sandeep Kaushik
In a candid interview, the former front-runner goes after his two main adversaries -- George W. Bush and John Kerry -- and says they're a lot alike.
When online advice columnists go bad
Lynn Harris
In an excerpt from Lynn Harris' new novel, "Miss Media," a specialist in relationships has a hard time following her own rules.
Letters
Salon Staff
Three parents who lost children in the 2001 terrorist attacks denounce Bush's stonewalling of the 9/11 commission. Plus: Readers discuss the Bush dynasty and the CIA revolt against the White House.
Letters
Salon Staff
Israeli whitewash or Arab propaganda? Readers weigh in on Christopher Farah's interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris and the wounds of 1948.
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