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The world press on democracy in America
Salon Staff
The Lebanese Daily Star: "Death interrupted Edward Said; despite his great achievements, his job was not done yet."
Invasion of the high-tech body snatchers
Alan H. Goldstein
Ready for infrared vision, and hearts that work better than the original? While bioethicists obsess over cloning, bioengineers will soon be able to replace every part of our bodies.
Am I gay?
Cary Tennis
I met a great gal at the ballpark who turned out to be a transsexual. I pitched, she caught. Bases loaded!
Letters
Salon Staff
"This nightmare economy can't last forever." Some readers feel Barbara Card Atkinson's pain -- others tell her to stop whining.
A naked woman is never ironic
David Bowman
Historian Jessica Glasscock chats about the first striptease, pasties, pubic landing strips, and the nude-friendly hippies who raised her.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
"Survivor" and Rob Lowe return -- as does the late, great "Dynasty." Jessica Simpson stumped by "Buffalo wings." Plus: The hopelessly ethical "West Wing" staff finally gets its comeuppance.
The enchanter
Laura Miller
With his comic book masterpiece "The Sandman" and his instant-classic children's horror tale, "Coraline," Neil Gaiman has established himself as today's master of fantasy.
Bad Moon on the rise
John Gorenfeld
Overcoming his church's bizarre reputation and his own criminal record, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has cemented ties with the Bush administration, while his disciples have even gained government funding.
The world press on the U.N. in Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
Should the U.N. bail out the U.S. in Iraq? A Guardian writer says not if it helps Bush win reelection.
Bush, Chirac clash at U.N.
Eric Boehlert
The president asks the world body to "move forward" to rebuild Iraq even though it didn't OK the war. The French say not so fast.
Iraq is not Vietnam
Edward W. Lempinen
The antiwar left shows a troubling indifference to the plight of Iraqis -- and flirts with irrelevance -- by demanding that President Bush bring the troops home now.
Patriotic gore
Charles Taylor
In Paul Fussell's newest World War II chronicle, the GIs who defeated the Nazis fought an ugly, dirty, bloody war that brutalized them all and ennobled no one. That doesn't mean it was pointless.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Stylist to the stars behind bars, Jon Stewart tells it like it is -- once again -- and Cameron Diaz gets zits! Plus: Will Baryshnikov replace Big?
Will the real Feminem please stand up
Baz Dreisinger
Is Sarai the music industry's eagerly awaited lady Slim Shady?
Night flight to Tashkent
Tom Bissell
I'm smuggling $6,300 into Uzbekistan -- and I have no experience with this sort of thing. The first chapter from a Salon contributor's travel memoir, "Chasing the Sea."
“demonlover”
Charles Taylor
Olivier Assayas' unclassifiable porn-capitalism thriller is a theory-addled nightmare -- but it's also a profound and troubling movie about contemporary life.
Letters
Salon Staff
Entrapment is never justified, no matter what the thought crime: Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "Mob Justice."
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The pilot confesses his many sins and explains the strange aviation mystery of Gardner, Mass.
Can John Kerry turn it around?
David Kusnet
His campaign's in disarray, his message is muddled, and the media has narrowed its focus to Wesley Clark vs. Howard Dean. But backers insist the combat veteran is ready for a long battle.
Reruns on the runway
Adrienne Crew
New York's Fashion Week is once again giving us something old and something borrowed. For once, how about something new?
Rumsfeld’s McArmy goes to war
David Morse
The Pentagon's new public-private military was supposed to be a lean, mean fighting machine. It isn't working.
Life sentences
Sheerly Avni
Novelist Mark Salzman, who spent four years teaching locked-up young hoods in L.A., talks about his students, their writing and how they inspired him to have a child of his own.
Funkenstein’s monster
Scott Thill
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic are a hugely groove-alicious influence on contemporary pop culture. But could anything like Clinton's grand artistic vision -- and inclusive politics -- thrive in today's shallow realm of bling?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
You're not going to believe this: The NCAA is all about money. And you're really not going to believe this: Someone has admitted it!
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